20th-21st Century Spanish

After training at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid and at the Museo de Reproducciones Artísticas and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, also in Madrid, Alcalde enrolled at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in 1933.

Since his first exhibition in 1940, he developed his career internationally, with long sojourns in Paris and Venezuela. The artist is known, above all, for his solitary urban landscapes. The restrained palette and the baroque-like forms of his beginnings were soon replaced by a number of elements which would end up defining his mature style: simplified shapes with blurred contours, geometrising planes and soft tones, harmonised in large areas of colour.