Ovidio Murgia De Castro - Artist Info

About Ovidio Murgia De Castro

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Ovidio Murguia de Castro
  • Biography

    Son of the writers Rosalía de Castro and Manuel Murguía, he began to paint in Santiago de Compostela, in the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País, where he had José María Fenollera as his teacher. During these years, Murguía was linked to the intellectual nucleus of La Coruña, a city where he exhibited his works with some assiduity. His move to Madrid in 1895 marked a turning point in his career, determined by his visits to the Prado Museum. In the capital, he met his future protector, Eugenio Montero Ríos, who commissioned him to decorate the Lourizán Palace in Pontevedra. This would be the high point of his career, sadly cut short when he died of tuberculosis in 1900. A representative of the so-called Painful Generation...

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