Isabel Quintanilla
Isabel Quintanilla | |
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| Born | July 22, 1938 |
| Died | October 24, 2017(aged 79) |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Education | Instituto Beatriz Galindo Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes |
| Movement | Realism |
| Spouse | Francisco López Hernández |
Isabel Quintanilla(July 22, 1938 – October 24, 2017) was a Spanish visual artist belonging to the new Spanishrealismmovement. Her paintings usually portray still life, describing simple objects and views from everyday life, as well as landscape paintings.[1]
Biography[edit]
Isabel Quintanilla was born in thePacificoneighborhood of Madrid on July 22, 1938 to José Antonio and María Ascensión.[2]Her father was a mining engineer who became aSpanish Republicancommandant during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed in 1941 in aFrancoist concentration campin Burgos, after which her mother worked as a dressmaker to support Quintanilla and her sister.[3]
Quintanilla began studying art at an early age, attending drawing and painting classes in the studios of Maroussia Valero and Manuel Gutiérrez Navas.[4]In 1953, at the age of fifteen, she entered the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes inSan Fernando,where she would meet artistsAntonio López Garcíaand Francisco López Hernández.[5]She graduated six years later, in 1959.
In 1960, Quintanilla received a scholarship and became a drawing assistant at Instituto Beatriz Galindo. Soon after that, she married Francisco López Hernández. When he received a scholarship to attend the Escuela de Bellas Artes de España in Rome, she accompanied him and completed an independent study of Pompeian frescos and ancient art.[6]The couple returned to Madrid in 1965 and Quintanilla focused her work onstill lives,painting intimate portraits of objects around her house, such as cups, sewing machines, and lamps.[6]The subjects of her paintings evoked domesticity and referenced the users of these objects without depicting them.[3]
Quintanilla's first solo exhibition took place inCaltanissettainPalermo, Italy.[5]In 1970, Quintanilla met Ernest Wuthenow, a collector and gallerist who helped her exhibit her work across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. She was particularly successful in Germany, and had solo shows inFrankfurt,Hamburg,andDarmstadt.[2]In 1982, she was granted a Bachelor of Fine Arts by theUniversidad Complutense de Madrid.
She was a part of a group of artists called the Madrid Realists, who were connected by familial ties and friendship, and included Antonio López García and his wife Maria Moreno López, Amalia Ava, and Esperanza Parada.[2]In 1996, she was the subject of a retrospective at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid, as well as a solo exhibition at Galería Leandro Navarro. Quintanilla was also featured in an exhibit on the Madrid Realists at theThyssen-Bornemisza Museumin 2016.[2]
She died on October 24, 2017 at the age of 79.[5]
Solo exhibitions[edit]
- 1966 – Galeria Edurne, Madrid
- 1968 – Galeria La Pasarela, Seville
- 1970 – Galeria Egam, Madrid; Galerie Buchholz, Munich
- 1974 – Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
- 1980 – Kunstverein, Braunschweig
- 2024 - Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
References[edit]
- ^Paintings of Isabel Quintanilla, published onGalería Arte LibreArchived25 October 2017 at theWayback Machine.
- ^abcdGusebauer, Glaphyra (19 January 2024)."Isabel Quintanilla's intimate realism".FOTOCULT MAGAZIN(in Austrian German).Retrieved12 June2024.
- ^abCasero, Cecilia (29 January 2024)."The Moving Work of Spanish Painter Isabel Quintanilla Gets a Spotlight in Madrid".Vogue.Retrieved12 June2024.
- ^Isabel Quintanilla biography, onLeandro Navarro Art Gallery website.
- ^abc"Muere la pintora Isabel Quintanilla a los 79 años".Diario ABC(in Spanish). 25 October 2017.Retrieved12 June2024.
- ^abFord, Lauren Moya (1 May 2024)."Isabel Quintanilla's Dreamy Realism".Hyperallergic.Retrieved12 June2024.
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