20^th century Spanish
 
Lahuerta began studying art at the School of Arts and Crafts in Valencia. In 1919, at the early age of fourteen, he enrolled at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in the same city.

After completing his education he began to work as a drawing artist for some publications of the time and as a teacher giving painting lessons. He exhibited for the first time at Sala Blava in Valencia and in 1929 at Sala Parés in Barcelona. In the early 1930s a scholarship gave him the chance to travel to a number of European countries in search of new subject matters for his paintings. However, the celebrity he gained around this time proved to be short-lived.

Lahuerta belongs to a generation of painters from Spain’s Mediterranean coast in the first third of the 20^th century who left behind the aesthetic language inherited from Sorolla. Without ever relinquishing figuration, the artist reached significant levels of modernism and painterly quality in a style grounded in an intense palette and compositional simplicity.

After a period of some years focused on popular subject matters, he shifted towards his local landscape, which became a true obsession for him.