Francisco Mateos Gonzalez - Artist Info

About Francisco Mateos Gonzalez

  • Biography

    Francisco Mateos was a Spanish artist who was one of the initiators of Spanish Expressionism. He began his career as an illustrator for the press and later received a scholarship that allowed him to study Central European Expressionism in Germany, France, and Belgium. He returned to Spain and participated in various exhibitions and made illustrations for publications. During the war, he devoted himself to socialist propaganda and participated in the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937. After the exile, he returned to the artistic scene with exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Galeries Layetanas. Mateos captured a very personal interpretation of everyday life in his works, as a sarcastic, tragic, and grotesque manifesto ...

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