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Agustín Redondela
(Madrid, 1922 - 2015)
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th
Century Spanish
The son of the painter and stage designer José González Redondela, Agustín’s first exposure to the art world was working alongside his father. He later attended the School of Arts and Crafts, where he met the artists of the so-called
School of Madrid
or Young School of Madrid, is a term coined by the art dealer and bookseller Karl Buchholz and the art critic Manuel Sánchez Camargo to name the group of Spanish painters—many of them from the Second
School of Vallecas
(1927-1936) founded in 1927 by Benjamín Palencia and Alberto Sánchez with the purpose of renewing Spanish art in line with what was happening elsewhere in Europe. Landscape became the main subject matter of this school, albeit a highly sober landscape influenced by Hispanic primitivism, fauvist colour, a surrealist approach and cubist order. The starting point was the arid, barren land on the outskirts of Madrid in the direction of Toledo, stripped of any superfluous object and worked with economic brushwork and a palette of earthy tones. This take on landscape straddled tradition and modernism. The School of Vallecas disbanded with the outbreak of the Civil War, although it was the only school to rise from its ashes, reborn in the Second School of Vallecas (1939-1942).
—who took part in the group exhibition held in 1945 at Galería Buchholz in Madrid. This group has sometimes been considered a mere commercial project driven by art critics and gallery owners with a view to creating a market for landscape painting.
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Redondela had his first solo exhibition in 1945 at Galería Estilo in Madrid. His frequent travels throughout Spain led to his taste for landscape in which his style became sketchier and with a more restrained palette.
In 1953 he won the National Painting Prize. A year later, he obtained a grant from the Catherwood Foundation, Philadelphia. In 1996 he was awarded the González de la Peña Prize from the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Shortly after that, in 1998, the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid organised a survey exhibition of his work.