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Antonio León Ortega (December 7, 1907 – January 9, 1991) was a Spanish sculptor known for his Andalusian imagery.

Antonio León Ortega
León Ortega for Gamero Viñau.
Born(1907-12-07)December 7, 1907
Ayamonte, Huelva, Spain
DiedJanuary 9, 1991(1991-01-09) (aged 83)
Huelva, Spain
NationalitySpanish
EducationAcademy of Arts, Madrid
Known forSculpture

Biography


Antonio León Ortega was born in Ayamonte, in the county of Huelva, on December 7, 1907.

When he was a teenager, he showed a restless passion and an innate ability for sculpture, producing his first self-taught works. When, years later, they were shown to the master Mariano Benlliure, they appeared to be typical of a mature sculptor.

He carried on his studies in Madrid from 1927 to 1934. He attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he studied sculpture and design teaching under excellent teachers such as Mariano Benlliure, José Capuz, Manuel Benedito and Juan Adsuara, with whom he worked during a stage of his production.
In those years he approached Castilian imagery: he studied it in Valladolid, where he found his mentor in Gregorio Fernández.

Since 1938 he worked in his first workshop in San Cristobal Street in Huelva, sharing it with the painter Pedro Gómez. Soon the workshop became not only an informal school of artists, but also an atheneum of arts and humanities, frequented by all the artists who lived or passed through Huelva such as poets, journalists, doctors and writers. The workshop was known in the artistic world as the "San Cristobal’s Academy".
In the same years, he studied the Sevillana imagery through the works of the master Martínez Mountañés.
In 1964 he moved to a new workshop in Medico Luís Buendía Street and he worked there until 1985, year in which illness moved him away from all the activities.

In these 50 years of hard work, he produced more than four hundred works, including small and great size works, made of different materials such as wood, mud, stone, brass, and others. He elaborated on the religious works from a previous sketch drawn on mud and he sculpted them directly onto the wood with the help of the gouge and the mallet. In this way, he followed the traditional Spanish imagery way learned in Madrid from José Capuz and Juan Adsuara.

He produced lots of the images for the Holy Week of Huelva and Ayamonte and of many other towns in the counties of Huelva and Badajoz. He created other important religious and civil works in Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Caceres, Salamanca, Pontevedra, Madrid, Belgium, United States, etc., as well as many others in smaller sizes, belonging to private collections in America and in Spain.

He created a modernist style of sculpture in Madrid, according to the twenties style: we can easily find it in works like the Retrato de Luna, in Manuel Bendito Museum, and the Retrato de Trinidad Navarro in Ayamonte.

Descendimiento of Huelva
Descendimiento of Huelva

León Ortega is the author of one of the most serious, rigorous and personal sculptures in Spain in the 20th century, creating an easily distinguishable personal style. He got the best of his production in the sculptural groups, preferring the sculpture to the imagery, The Descendimiento of Huelva, in which he combined the expressive force of Berruguete with the Andalusian sweetness of his style, it represents a real masterpiece. In the Crucificados, the Cristo de la Sangre de los Estudiantes is rich in such a unique elegance and beauty . He also produced many Madonnas with faces full of suppressed pain (he didn't like the candlestick images, he preferred the full size). The Virgen del amor of Huelva represents its maximum example.

His outstanding productions include: the Yacente, the Cristo del Perdòn, the Angel de la oraciòn, the Cristo de la Borriquita, the Jesùs de las tres Caidas, the Cristo de la Victoria, the Cristo de la Conception, the San Cristobal, the Virgen de las Angustias and the Virgen de los Angeles in Huelva, the Pasión, the Yacente de las Angustias, the Cautivo, the Cristo de las Aguas and the Virgen de la paz in Ayamonte, the Nazareno of Beas and the Nazareno of Moguer.

At the same time he was an educator; he taught drawing and modelling classes in his workshop, in the Diocesan seminary and where today is the León Ortega School of Arts.

As sculptor, he mostly gave himself up to creating images, not only because this artistic field had always attracted him, but also because he was motivated by intimate religious convictions, that, connected to his social sensibility, place him into the area of the most involved Christianity.
His first religious works had a baroque touch, but then he found a very personal style: he chose a lighter form of lines and decorations and he tried to find a fusion between the Castillian and Andalucian imagery to get the essence of the sculpture only in its minimalism.

In the last five-year period he worked until he was eighty his production lost part of its sculptorical power. He created only small size works because they needed just a little physical effort as, for example, his last masterpiece, the Busto de Madame Cazenave.

His images are characterized by strength, beauty and sweetness due to his passion for wooden sculpture and for the model.

León Ortega died on January 9, 1991, in his house in Huelva.


Works



Public Works


Platero. Museum J.R. Jiménez (Moguer)
Platero. Museum J.R. Jiménez (Moguer)

Religious and private works



Huelva

Aljaraque

Cristo del Perdón (Huelva)
Cristo del Perdón (Huelva)

Almonaster la Real

Alosno

Aracena

Ayamonte

Pasión of Ayamonte
Pasión of Ayamonte

Beas

Cartaya

Corrales

Corteconcepción

El Campillo

El Cerro de Andévalo

Ángel de la Oración en el Huerto (Huelva)
Ángel de la Oración en el Huerto (Huelva)

El Judío

Galaroza

Gibraleón

Huelva

Cristo de la Sangre de Huelva
Cristo de la Sangre de Huelva

La Nava

La Redondela

Yacente (Huelva)
Yacente (Huelva)

Lepe

Lucena del Puerto

Mina la Zarza-Silos de Calañas

Minas de Riotinto

Minas de Tharsis

Moguer

Nerva

Niebla

Cristo de las Aguas (Ayamonte)
Cristo de las Aguas (Ayamonte)

Palos de la Frontera

Puebla de Guzmán

Sanlúcar de Guadiana

Santa Bárbara de Casa

Tharsis

Trigueros

Villablanca

Villanueva de los Castillejos

Villarrasa



Badajoz

Bodonal de la Sierra

Jerez de los Caballeros

Puebla de Sancho Pérez



Cáceres



Madrid

Jesús de las Tres Caídas (Huelva) en el taller de San Cristobal, 1945.
Jesús de las Tres Caídas (Huelva) en el taller de San Cristobal, 1945.


Málaga

Vélez-Málaga



Salamanca

Ciudad Rodrigo

La Fuente de San Esteban

Sancti Spiritus

Cristo, 1962, Parroquia.



Sevilla

La Puebla de Cazalla

Sevilla

Villanueva del Río y Minas



Tenerife




Belgium

Brussels



United States

Stamford (Connecticut)



Sources and Bibliography



Notes





На других языках


[de] Antonio León Ortega

Antonio León Ortega (* 7. Dezember 1907 in Ayamonte, Provinz Huelva; † 9. Januar 1991 in Huelva) war ein spanischer Bildhauer. Nach seiner Ausbildung in Madrid schuf er seinen eigenen Stil in der andalusischen Symbolik des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
- [en] Antonio León Ortega

[es] Antonio León Ortega

Antonio León Ortega (Ayamonte, Huelva, 7 de diciembre de 1907-Huelva, 9 de enero de 1991) escultor español. Se formó en Madrid y creó un estilo propio en la imaginería andaluza del siglo XX.

[fr] Antonio León Ortega

Antonio León Ortega est un sculpteur espagnol né à Ayamonte (Espagne) le 7 décembre 1907 et mort à Huelva le 9 janvier 1991.

[it] Antonio León Ortega

Antonio León Ortega (Ayamonte, 7 dicembre 1907 – Huelva, 9 gennaio 1991) è stato uno scultore spagnolo. Di scuola madrilena, sviluppò uno stile personale nella scultura sacra andalusa del XX secolo.



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