Agustín Redondela

AGUSTÍN REDONDELA (Madrid, 1922-2015).
"The route of Don Quixote", 1989.
20 etchings by Agustín Redondela. Issue 142/199.
Texts by Azorín. José Ramírez Ruíz (Monóvar, 1873- Madrid, 1967).
Publisher, Rembrandt S.A.
Damaged in the box.
Signed and justified by the artist.
Measurements: 52,5 x 37 cm, 55 x 39 x 6,5 cm (box).
Almost totally self-taught, Augstín González Alonso has been considered one of the most original landscape painters of the Spanish art of the 20th century. He trained with his father, the painter and scenographer José González Redondela, in Madrid and San Sebastián, and after the Civil War he attended classes at the School of Arts and Crafts in Madrid with the landscape painter José Ordóñez. He sent a work to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1945 with the pseudonym Redondela, which he kept since then, and in the same year, he participated in his first individual exhibition in this city. Around this time he made contact with the Madrid School, a group in which he has been included despite the differences in his work. In 1947 the Academia Breve de Crítica de Arte de Eugenio d'Ors selected him to exhibit in the Salón de los Once, in 1952 the Premio Acuarela del Ateneo de Madrid, in 1953 he won the Premio Nacional de Pintura, in 1954 he won the Premio de la II Bienal Hispanoamericana and a grant from the Catherword Foundation (Philadelphia, United States), a first National Medal in 1957, the prize "José González de la Peña" from the Real Academia de San Fernando in 1996... He participated in some 32 individual exhibitions and more than fifty group exhibitions throughout his career.
He combined painting with the creation of naturalistic scenographies for plays such as "Caperucita asusta al lobo" by Jacinto Benavente or "El amor de los cuatro coroneles" by Peter Ustinov. It is necessary to highlight the illustrations of "Viaje a la Alcarria" by Camilo José Cela (Rembrandt Ediciones, 1978, Alicante) and his own definition of painting: "it is to leave the soul in what you do; the painting that does not move me, that does not tell me things, does not interest me".
His works can be seen in prominent private collections and in others such as BBVA, as well as in museums such as the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza-Colección Beulas de Huesca, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, the Centro de Bellas Artes da Coruña, etc.