Jose Maria Subirachs Sitjar was born in 1927 in Barcelona, Spain. He trained as a sculptor in both Barcelona and Paris and went on to exhibit his work internationally.

Jose Maria Subirachs Sitjar received several major awards, including the Sculpture Prize of the Salón del Jazz, the San Jorge Grand Prize of the Diputación de Barcelona, and the Julio González Prize of the Cámara Barcelonesa de Arte. He was elected to the San Jorge Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1980 and received the Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 1988.

His sculptures are held in museums around the world, including the Centro Reina Sofía; the MACBA Museums in Barcelona, Ibiza, Seville, and New York; the Fine Arts Museums of Bilbao, Birmingham, the Vatican, Ta...