María Luisa Pérez Herrero

María Luisa Pérez Herrero
Herrero in 1923
Born(1898-04-12)12 April 1898
Madrid, Spain
Died26 May 1934(1934-05-26) (aged 36)
Madrid, Spain
Known forPainting
StyleLandscape

María Luisa Pérez Herrero (12 April 1898 – 26 May 1934) was a Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, whose artistic career was cut short by her early death at age 36.[1]

Biography

María Luisa Pérez Herrero studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and was a student of Antonio Muñoz Degrain.[2] In 1919, she received a pension at the Monastery of El Paular. The following year, she exhibited at the First Autumn Salon of Independent Artists of Madrid, held at the Exhibition Center of the Parque del Buen Retiro.[3]

Following the exhibition of her works in 1923, the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas [es] offered the artist a modest pension. After a banquet in her honor on 27 April of that year, she went to live in Paris and toured Belgium.[4] A portion of her work, comprising landscapes of Paris and Bruges, was exhibited both on her return in Madrid[2][5] and at the 6th edition of that city's Autumn Salon in 1925.[6]

Landscapes of Bruges, Amsterdam, Versailles, Saint-Cloud, and the Jardin du Luxembourg were some of the paintings included in the 21 works exhibited in 1927 at the Lyceum Salon in Madrid[7] and at the Friends of Art Salon of 1928.[2] In 1929, after a three-week stay in Salamanca, she created 12 more works themed around the provincial capital, including La antigua calle del Arcediano en Salamanca (The Ancient Street of the Archdeacon in Salamanca).[8]

Recognitions

La Esfera, Calleja de Miraflores

In 1922, Pérez received the Third Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, a year in which she also exhibited a series of landscapes of Aranjuez and Miraflores at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.[2] At the proposal of the School of Fine Arts, she was given a pension in 1923 by the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas. As a result of that trip she would receive an award three years later at the 1926 Exhibition of Cádiz.[2]

At the 1934 National Exhibition of Fine Arts, by the order of 25 July at the proposal of the jury, her work Udiain was acquired for a value of 3,000 pesetas, in recognition of its merits and as a tribute to her memory. Her death, the result of a rapid illness, had occurred only a few hours before the opening of the event.[9]

She lived at 10 Ataulfo Street in the Madrid district of Chamartín.[3] This street is now named for her.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mujeres, reales o de ficción, en el actual callejero madrileño" [Women, Real or Fictional, in Current Madrid Streets] (PDF). Memoria de mujeres en el callajero de Madrid (in Spanish). City Council of Madrid: 196. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e Antolín Paz, Mario (1994). Diccionario de pintores y escultores españoles del siglo XX [Dictionary of 20th-Century Spanish Painters and Sculptors] (in Spanish). Forum Artis. p. 3266. ISBN 8488836112.
  3. ^ a b Barreda Pérez, María Dolores (1 December 2016). "Artistas que participaron en el primer Salón de Otoño de 1920" [Artists Participating in the First Autumn Salon of 1920] (in Spanish). Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Arte y artistas" [Art and Artists]. ABC (in Spanish). 24 April 1923. p. 20. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  5. ^ "María Luisa Pérez-Herrero y su labor de Francia y Bélgica" [María Luisa Pérez Herrero and Her Work from France and Belgium]. ABC (in Spanish). 24 January 1926. p. 7. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Algunas impresiones del interesante VI Salón de Otoño en Madrid" [Some Impressions from the Interesting 6th Autumn Salon in Madrid]. ABC (in Spanish). 8 November 1925. p. 3. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Arte y Artistas" [Arts and Artists]. ABC (in Spanish). 17 April 1927. p. 31. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  8. ^ Calderero Sánchez, Manuel S. (11 November 2010). "Cuadro de María Luisa Pérez Herrero" [Picture by María Luisa Pérez Herrero]. Tierra Charra (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  9. ^ "El Año 1934 y las bellas artes" [The Year 1934 and the Fine Arts]. ABC (in Spanish). 1 January 1935. p. 53. Retrieved 18 March 2019.