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| Juan de Echevarría (1875–1931) | ||||||||||
| Echevarría was a Spanish painter of Basque ancestry, born in Bilbao. He studied at Angoulême, France, and then at Eton in 1897. He completed his engineering studies in Germany. On his return to Bilbao in 1900, he began to run the family steel business, but in 1902 he abruptly abandoned his work to devote himself to painting. He studied at the workshop of Manuel Losada in Bilbao, and in 1903, he went to Paris with the painter Francisco Iturrino. There, he began his association with painters and writers of the modern movement. He enrolled at the Académie Julian and worked extensively at the workshop of the artist Francisco Durrio. He opened a studio in Paris in 1908, and then in Bilbao in 1909 where he settled, and one in Madrid in 1915. Through his extensive travels in Europe, he developed a peculiar, cosmopolitan style of painting which exhibited the traditions of Impressionism with the teachings of Fauvism. He did turn to Spanish folk, as did other Spanish artists towards the end of the 19th century, but he did so in his own modern, unique style. Despite his success, he almost always only exhibited in Spain. As one of the artists who helped break away from the monotonous classicism of the 19th century, Echevarría was part of the movement that modernised Spanish art. He died in Madrid. | ||||||||||
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