Valentín de Zubiaurre Aguirrezábal (Madrid, 22 of August of 1879 - 24 of January of 1963) was a Spanish painter. He was born deaf-mute, like his brother Ramón de Zubiaurre, also a painter, three years younger than him. Both were children of the musical composer Valentín de Zubiaurre Urionabarrenechea.
Biography
Originally from the Vizcaya town of Garay, the Zubiaurre family resided in the capital of Spain, where the father had come to occupy the place obtained as musical master in the chapel of the Royal Palace. In spite of the great paternal desire that some of its children continued with the musical vocation, the fatality wanted both to be born deaf.
Valentin began his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1894, continuing them 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.
In 1902 he obtained a scholarship from the Diputación Foral de Vizcaya to travel to Italy in the company of his brother Ramon, once he had overcome the obstacles that led him to obtain the same circumstance of being born outside Vizcaya. This trip is considered the starting point of artistic coming of age for both brothers. In her artistic career, her sister, Pilar de Zubiaurre, played a fundamental role, in charge of the sale of her paintings and the organization of many of her exhibitions in Spain and abroad.
It reached the First Medal of the National Exhibition of Beautiful Arts in 1917, next to Joaquin Mir and Eugenio Hermoso.
For a time 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 resided in the Palace of the Count of Cheste.
On October 12, 1942 he marries the Basilica of Begoña with Pilar Elejoste Astarbe. Two years later, he is named academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Throughout his artistic life he maintained studies in Madrid and Garai's birthplace.
He died in Madrid in 1962.
His work
He cultivated a costumbrista painting, in which the Basques and Castilian themes proliferate, where the solidity of the figures was compounded with a deep sense of colorism. It was not easy to obtain official recognition. At a time when naturalism and impressionism were the dominant tendencies, Zubiaurre made a more intellectual painting, combining on the one hand the mastery of his art with the intellectual elaboration of the idea. He was also blamed for having fallen into the vice of the crushing repetition of certain types and compositions once gained some popularity, elaborating again and again the same formulas.
For years the erroneous belief that the Zubiaurre brothers shared the elaboration of their paintings, working both in the same work, was maintained. Nothing of this is true; It is true that they came from a similar aesthetic standard and that they treated a similar variety of subjects, but the results of both brothers were substantially different. In the painting of Valentín there is less socarronería, predominating a certain melancholy that is not present in the pictures of Ramón. In the words of José Ortega y Gasset, his work is "a lyrical inventory of Basque existence".
His work is found in several Spanish museums, such as the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga, where the Basque Coast is exposed at sunset (1949) and Dantzaris at sunset (undated), an example of Basque regionalist painting, solved through a flat composition And the use of cold colors, characteristic of the style of Zubiaurre.2
Selection of works
The Feast of the Virgin
Basque coast at sunset 1949. (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga))
Basque fishermen
Old laws and new flower
Versolaris
Offering in a hermitage
Landscape at sunset with dantzaris undated (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga)
In Basque land
The three confreres
Road to Zamarramala
Basque spinner
Segovian types
At twelve
Uncle Saturio
Bibliography
Ramon de Zubiaurre, the painter and the man. Tokeshi Mochizuki. Provincial Council of Vizcaya. 1980
The Zubiaurre brothers. Xabier Sáenz de Gorbea. Caja de Ahorros Vizcaína. 1982
References
Biography of Eugenio Hermoso
Llorente, Angel in AA.VV (2014) Museum Carmen Thyssen Málaga. Collection., Málaga. P.466 ISBN 978-84-941565-0-2
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