Roberto Fernandez Balbuena . Spanish architect and painter who developed his work fundamentally between portrait and landscape painting , he also dedicated himself to architecture with innovative proposals in the accelerated process of modernization in which the world is immersed at the beginning of the 20th century . He develops his work fundamentally between Madrid and Mexico .
Summary
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- 1 Biographical summary
- 2Labor Profesional
- 3 Muerte
- 4 Sources
biographical synthesis
Roberto Fernández Balbuena was born on November 29 , 1890 in Madrid , Spain . He comes from a military family.
He graduated from high school and in 1905 entered the Higher School of Architecture in Madrid , where he graduated in 1914 together with his brother Gustavo. Later, between 1916 and 1919 , he studied as a pensioner at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome .
He married the Spanish painter Elvira Gascón, with whom he met at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts .
Professional work
Once graduated, Fernández Balbuena began to work on the project for the Competition for the building of the Círculo de Bellas [[Arts] together with his brother Gustavo in Madrid in 1919 . There he began his activity as an architect by building several houses while making drawings and writings for the magazine Arquitectura.
Already in 1923 he works as a professor of Geometric Drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts and teaches as a project assistant at the School of Architecture, devoting himself from 1923 after the death of his brother Gustavo entirely to painting , which constituted his true calling.
On January 29, 1937 he was appointed President of the Delegate Board of Seizure, Protection and Salvage of the Artistic Treasure of Madrid , later he was appointed Delegate of Fine Arts of the Central Region. In 1938 he served as Secretary of the Subsection of Contemporary Art of the Central Council of Archives, Libraries and Public Treasury and in this same year, together with Pablo Picasso , he dedicated himself to the Subdirectorate of the Prado Museum .
He was Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of Spain in Sweden .
In 1939 he arrived in Mexico and, together with Ovidio Botella, founded the construction company TASA, Associated Technicians. In Mexico he successfully held several exhibitions between 1942 and 1963 , he also had outstanding interventions erecting warehouse buildings in the Mexican capital and in Monterrey and residences in Cuernavaca.
In homage to his work, in 1991 the Madrid government held an exhibition, the works came from the exhibition that was held in Mexico , Montana on the centenary of his birth.
In the year 2000 , the work of Roberto Fernández Balbuena and that of his wife was exhibited in Mexico , the exhibition was called 60 years of Spanish Exile.
Students of his works:
- Laboratory, 1910
- Woman in Blue, 1915
- Coffee table, 1927
- Still life bread and bananas, 1962
- Vegetables, 1965.
