Valentín de Zubiaurre Aguirrezábal (1879 - 1963), was a Spanish
Basque painter. He was born deaf and dumb, as was his brother Ramón de
Zubiaurre , also a painter, three years younger than him. Both were children of
the musical composer Valentín de Zubiaurre Urionabarrenechea.
Originally from the Basque town of Garay , the Zubiaurre
family lived in the capital of Spain, where the father obtained a position as
musical teacher in the chapel of the Royal Palace.
Valentin began his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
of San Fernando in 1894, continuing later with the painters Muñoz Degrain and
Alejandro Ferrant and Carlos de Haes. In 1898 he made a trip through the Netherlands,
France and Italy to complete his training.
For a while he lived in Segovia, attracted by the types and
the Castilian landscape, which he profusely used in his painting. During his
stay in the town he lived in the Palace of the Count of Cheste.
He cultivated a costumbrista
painting style, in which the Basque and Castilian themes proliferated and where
the solidity of the figures was interpenetrated with a deep sense of color. It
was not easy for him to get official recognition. At a time when naturalism and
impressionism were the dominant trends, Zubiaurre made a more intellectual painting,
combining on the one hand the mastery of his art with the intellectual
elaboration of the idea.
He died in Madrid in 1962.
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