Born in the Realejo of Granada.

In 1956, following the advice of Miguel Pérez Aguilera from Jaén, he entered the School of Fine Arts in Seville and in 1959, with a scholarship from the Granada City Council, he traveled to Paris. In 1960 he alternated his attendance at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts with visits to the Prado Museum and works for a publishing house. A new scholarship allowed him to travel to Italy. Upon his return, in 1962, he began studies of intaglio engraving, a technique with which he would soon win several awards. Granted that summer at the Landscape School of El Paular (Segovia), he obtained the Gold Medal. In 1964 he concluded his engraving studies and the following year, thanks to a new grant from the Juan March Foundation, he traveled to Italy, working in the “Calcografia Nazionale de Roma and Gabinetto della Stampa de Florence”.

Once again in Spain, during an exhibition in Segovia, one of the painter’s favorite anecdotes takes place: the actor Henry Fonda bought him two paintings.

In May 1970 he won the Chair of Artistic Drawing at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts. That same year, in September, his father died. Another grant from the Juan March Foundation (specializing in etching and

woodcut) allows him to travel around Spain working on a monograph on “The Spanish landscape”.

Academic at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Nuestra Señora de las Angustias in Granada in 1978, in Seville in 1988 (which in 2003 would also award him the Medal of Fine Arts) and, a year later, academic in Madrid.

 

Work in different museums:

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, National Calcography, General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cabinet of Prints of the National Library.

In Granada:

Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation Museum, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Archaeological Museum and Board of Trustees of the Alhambra.

 

Other locations inside and outside of Spain:

Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Seville. National Theater Museum, Almagro (Ciudad Real). Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of Jaén. Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of Zaragoza. Museum of San Telmo, San Sebastián. Museum of Santa Cruz, Toledo. Institut del Teatre-Palao Güell, Barcelona. Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving, Marbella (Málaga). Gabinetto della stamp of Florence. Gabinetto della stamp of Rome. National Institute of Theater Studies, Buenos Aires (Argentina).