Isabel Quintanilla - Artist Info

About Isabel Quintanilla

  • Biography

    Isabel Quintanilla was a Spanish artist who received drawing lessons from Trinidad de la Torre from 1949-52 and studied at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes in Madrid from 1953 to 1959. She graduated from the Complutense University in Madrid with a degree in painting in 1982.

    Quintanilla's work is associated with the new Spanish realism movement, and she was a member of the group Realistas Madrileños. Her paintings and drawings often depicted still lifes of everyday objects, and she was known for her ability to accurately capture texture using diffused light.

    One of her works, a drawing of a newborn lying on a changing table, is held in the collection of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

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