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1931 - 2000. Known for: Painting.
Orphaned at a very young age, Xavier Pousa was brought up by his mother and his grandfather, Serafín Carrera, who, when the boy was 13, urged him to show his drawings to the painter Antonio... Read full biography
Orphaned at a very young age, Xavier Pousa was brought up by his mother and his grandfather, Serafín Carrera, who, when the boy was 13, urged him to show his drawings to the painter Antonio Fernández. The latter would take him on as a pupil and inherit from him his love of nature and the rigour of... Read full biography
Orphaned at a very young age, Xavier Pousa was brought up by his mother and his grandfather, Serafín Carrera, who, when the boy was 13, urged him to show his drawings to the painter Antonio Fernández. The latter would take him on as a pupil and inherit from him his love of nature and the rigour of his work. In 1948 he travelled to Madrid for the first time, where he discovered the immense pictorial treasure of the Prado Museum, but also that of the Museum of Modern Art, the Sorolla House and... Read full biography
Orphaned at a very young age, Xavier Pousa was brought up by his mother and his grandfather, Serafín Carrera, who, when the boy was 13, urged him to show his drawings to the painter Antonio Fernández. The latter would take him on as a pupil and inherit from him his love of nature and the rigour of his work. In 1948 he travelled to Madrid for the first time, where he discovered the immense pictorial treasure of the Prado Museum, but also that of the Museum of Modern Art, the Sorolla House and the paintings of El Greco in Toledo. Thanks to various scholarships he was able to study in Madrid, enrolling in free drawing classes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Reproducciones Artísticas. In 1951 he entered the San Fernando School... Read full biography
Orphaned at a very young age, Xavier Pousa was brought up by his mother and his grandfather, Serafín Carrera, who, when the boy was 13, urged him to show his drawings to the painter Antonio Fernández. The latter would take him on as a pupil and inherit from him his love of nature and the rigour of his work. In 1948 he travelled to Madrid for the first time, where he discovered the immense pictorial treasure of the Prado Museum, but also that of the Museum of Modern Art, the Sorolla House and the paintings of El Greco in Toledo. Thanks to various scholarships he was able to study in Madrid, enrolling in free drawing classes at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Reproducciones Artísticas. In 1951 he entered the San Fernando School of Fine Arts and, from the following year onwards, began his career as an exhibitor. In the mid-1950s he travelled... Read full biography