Eugenio Hermoso, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish painter (1883-1963)
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Place of Birth: Fregenal de la Sierra, Extremadura, Spain
About Eugenio Hermoso
- Eugenio Hermoso MartĂnez (Fregenal de la Sierra, February 26, 1883 – Madrid, February 2, 1963) was a Spanish painter active in Badajoz.
- He was a professor of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and a contemporary of Benito Arias Montano and Juan Bravo Murillo. Hermoso was a student of Gonzalo Bilbao and José Jiménez Aranda in Seville.
- He moved to Madrid in 1901.
- In 1904, he won the bronze medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with La muchacha haciendo media, which was acquired by the Museum of Cádiz.
- His painting of "some rosy-pink peasant women carrying pumpkins and chickens and seen against the background of a setting sun" won much acclaim.
- He lived in the same place for several years with Daniel Vázquez DĂaz.
- Together, they had attended classes taught by Jiménez Aranda in Triana, Seville.
- In 1905, he exhibited El Colegio e Hijas del terruño at the ExposiciĂłn del CĂrculo de Bellas Artes which was praised by Francisco Alcantara and JosĂ© FrancĂ©s and also traveled to Paris and Brussels.
- In 1912, he exhibited at London. In 1934, he exhibited in Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
- During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), he befriended the painters Fernando Labrada and Francisco Prieto Santos.
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