19^th - 20^th Century Spanish

Corredoyra started out in art at a very early age. Thanks to a scholarship from the Lugo Provincial Council, he left his hometown when he was fourteen years old to go to Madrid, where he studied under artists of the stature of Joaquín Sorolla and Ignacio Zuloaga. He took part in exhibitions and events in Spain and abroad, and in 1917 he won the Second Medal at the National Exposition for his Schola Cantorum Compostellanae.

After some time in Paris he returned to Galicia, first to La Coruña and then to Santiago de Compostela where he was to live more or less continuously from then on.

Corredoyra’s fame spread to the other side of the Atlantic and from 1922 to 1928 he travelled to America where his works were seen in exhibitions in cities including Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Havana, Washington and New York.

After contracting gout he returned to Galicia where he died in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Many scholars view him as the founder of the so-called School of Galicia. He opposed the genre painting so much in fashion among artists of his time, and his work was defined by a subdued palette and by stylised figures made with a linear drawing that lent them a certain sense of spirituality.