José Asensio Lamiel (29 January 1924 – 26 August 2020) was an
Aragonese painter and sculptor born in
Calanda
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* Calanda, Spain, a town in Aragon, Spain
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in the Spanish
comarca
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of
Bajo Aragón
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.
Biography
He began his studies at the School of Applied Arts and Crafts in
Zaragoza
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. A scholarship allowed him to study at the
San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts in
Valencia
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, and then at the
San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. In the 1960s he moved to
Colombia
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and worked there for six years; he also worked in the United States, before returning to Spain, where he set up residence in Madrid, and continued to develop as painter and sculptor. In 1989 he was awarded the Cruz de San Jorge by the provincial government of Teruel.
Gallery
File:Monje, obra al óleo de Jose Lamiel.jpg, ''Monje''.
File:Paisaje_jose_lamiel.jpg, ''Paisaje del Bajo Aragón''.
File:Maternidad1.jpg, ''Maternidad''.
File:El Encuentro, de José Lamiel.JPG, ''El Encuentro''.
File:Calanda a Goya, por José Lamiel.JPG, ''Calanda a Goya'' (1950).
File:Alcalá de Henares - Madrid - 112 José Lamiel.jpg,
Bibliography
*''Diccionario Antológico de Artistas Aragoneses 1947–1978'', Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza, 1983.
See also
*
Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares
The Museum of Outdoor Sculpture of Alcala de Henares (''Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares'') is a permanent exhibition of contemporary art in public Alcalá de Henares (Madrid — Spain), opened in 1993 and organized by the sc ...
External links
José Antonio Bielsa: José Lamiel en ''El poder de la palabra''(Spanish)
1924 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Spanish painters
Spanish male painters
21st-century Spanish painters
Spanish male sculptors
People from Calanda
Sculptors from Aragon
20th-century Spanish sculptors
21st-century Spanish sculptors
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish expatriates in Colombia
Spanish expatriates in the United States
21st-century Spanish male artists
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