José "Pepín" Bello Lasierra (13 May 1904 – 11 January 2008) was a Spanish intellectual and

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. Bello, born in

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, was the son of engineer Severino Bello Poëysuan. His parents were friends with notable Spanish intellectuals such as Joaquin Costa,

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. At the age of eleven, he participated in the Madrid artist promotion " Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid" where he met

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. Bello, who studied medicine, was a profound influence on his creative contemporaries. Even though some of his paintings, which he called "Artists Without Deeds", were published, he was known mainly as the organizer of art events. He also managed a hydropower plant in the province of Huesca, operated a tannery in

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, and owned a drive-in theatre in Madrid. However, none of these business ventures were ultimately successful. Bello died in his sleep in

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at the age of 103. He was regarded as the last survivor of the "

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" and the only member to survive into the 21st Century, but Francisco Ayala, who died in 2009, later came to be regarded as the last surviving member of the generation.

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Biography of José Bello

Obituary at the ''International Herald Tribune''
1904 births 2008 deaths People from Huesca Spanish men centenarians Spanish male writers Generation of '27 {{Spain-writer-stub