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Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez (14 November 1884 – 6 October 1942) was a Spanish painter. He also worked as a caricaturist, poster artist and set designer.

Lorenzo Aguirre
Lorenzo Aguirre (before 1910?)
Born	(1884-11-14)November 14, 1884 Pamplona, Spain
Died	October 6, 1942(1942-10-06) (aged 57) Madrid, Spain
Cause of death	Execution by garrote
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Painter

Biography

He was born in Pamplona, but his parents moved to Alicante when he was four years old and his first art lessons came at the age of eleven with Lorenzo Casanova.[1] In 1899 he went to Madrid, where he attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and became a drawing teacher at the "Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado", a satellite school of the Academy, in 1904.[2] Six year later, he went to Paris, where he worked in the set designing studio at the Paris Opera.[3] He also took private lessons from Alice Bailly.[1]

Upon returning home, his first solo exhibition came in 1919 at the Ateneo de Madrid.[1] He continued to exhibit frequently and won numerous awards, including the third place medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1922 and the second place medal there in 1926. In between, in 1925, he won a major award at the International Exhibition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts.[3]

Throughout his life, he helped organize the festivities for the Bonfires of Saint John. He was also a prominent member of the Communist Party and a devoted Republican.[1]

In 1931, following the establishment of the Second Republic, he became more involved in politics.[1] During the Spanish Civil War, he followed the Republican government; first to Valencia, then Barcelona.[2] His loyalty to the legitimate government forced him and his family to seek exile in France after the war. Pausing for a time in Paris, he went to Le Havre with the intention of emigrating to America.[1]

But due to the German invasion in 1940, he was forced to flee south and was arrested while attempting to cross the border. He was taken to Ondarreta Prison in San Sebastián, where many Republicans were detained, then transferred to the notorious Porlier Prison [es] in Madrid. He was executed there by garotte in 1942, aged 59, accused of "abetting the rebellion".[1]

Major retrospectives of his work have been held in Bilbao (1986), Pamplona and Barcelona (simultaneously in 1999)[2] and Alicante, at the Gravina Museum of Fine Arts (2003).[4] Two of his daughters also became well-known; Jesusa (b. 1932) as an artist and Francisca (b. 1930) as a poet. His grandson is poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre.[5]

References

Further reading

• Homenaje a Lorenzo Aguirre (1884-1942), (exhibition catalog), presented by the Banco de Bilbao, 1986
• Lorenzo Aguirre olvidado y regresado, in the official magazine of the Bonfires of Saint John: FESTA. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, 2000

External links

• Lorenzo Aguirre @ Diccionario de Pintores Alicantinos. (with numerous paintings and posters)
• "Una Vida Apasionante y una Muerte Horrenda" @ Alicante Vivo

На других языках

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- [en] Lorenzo Aguirre

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[es] Lorenzo Aguirre

Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez (Pamplona, 14 de noviembre de 1884-Madrid, 6 de octubre de 1942) fue un pintor español, además de funcionario de policía por oposición durante la Segunda República. Destacó como escenógrafo, cartelista, y caricaturista. Casado con Francisca Benito Rivas, de quien tuvo tres hijas, Jesusa, también pintora, Margarita y la poeta Francisca Aguirre. Abuelo de los poetas Guadalupe Grande Aguirre y Carlos Martínez Aguirre.

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[fr] Lorenzo Aguirre

Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez, né à Pampelune en 1884 et mort à Madrid, assassiné par les franquistes en 1942, est un peintre républicain espagnol.

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[ru] Агирре, Лоренсо

Лоре́нсо Викториа́но Аги́рре Са́нчес (исп. Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez; 14 ноября 1884, Памплона — 6 октября 1942, Мадрид) — испанский художник, карикатурист, плакатист и сценограф.

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