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Luis Quintanilla
Luis Quintanilla
Luis Quintanilla

Luis Quintanilla

born Santander, Spain, 1893; died Madrid, Spain, 1978
BiographyLuis Quintanilla was born in Santander, Spain in 1893 (some sources record the birth year as 1895). His family moved to Madrid in 1905, where he began his art studies taking trips to England, Brazil, and then Paris, where he became friends with Juan Gris, and began painting in a Cubist style. After returning to Spain in 1915, he went back to Paris then traveled to Italy to study plein air painting. He returned to Madrid in 1926 and became a member of the socialist party. He was arrested and imprisoned in October 1934 for hosting the revolutionary committee of the October Revolt in his studio. After international protest, he was released from prison after serving a little over eight months, and was actively involved in the Spanish Civil War which started in July of 1936. He was forced into a exile at the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939, first living in New York and then in Paris. A year after the death of General Francisco Franco, Quintanilla returned to Madrid, where he died in 1978.

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