José Gutiérrez Solana

Spain · 1886–1945

José Romano Gutiérrez-Solana y Gutiérrez-Solana was a Spanish painter, engraver, and author. He usually signed his paintings as "J. Generally, he is considered to be an Expressionist, but his style was heavily influenced by El Greco, the Black Paintings of Goya and the works of Eugenio Lucas Velázquez. == Biography == His father was born in Mexico and came to Spain after receiving an inheritance from his relatives in Ruesga; marrying a cousin from Arredondo. His first lessons came from his uncle, José Díez Palma, who was a professor of drawing at the University of Salamanca.

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