Eduardo Martínez Vázquez

Place: Fresnedilla

Born: 1886

Death: 1971

Biography:

Eduardo Martínez Vázquez was a Spanish painter who specialized in landscapes. He was born on May 9, 1886, in Fresnedilla, Spain, and died on December 10, 1971, in Madrid, Spain. His father, Eduardo Martínez Gelaber, was a medical doctor, and the family moved to Mirandilla (Badajoz) and later to Paracuellos de Jarama (Madrid). At the age of fifteen, he enrolled in the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, where he studied under Antonio Muñoz Degrain. He was a contemporary of artists such as Solana, Zuloaga, Vázquez Díaz, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, and Eugenio Hermoso. Martínez Vázquez participated in numerous exhibitions throughout his career, both in Spain and internationally, including cities like London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Brussels, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Panama, Buenos Aires, Rosario, Santiago de Chile, and Montevideo. He began teaching as an auxiliary professor of landscape painting at the Escuela de Artes de San Fernando in Madrid in 1915 and later became a full-time professor of outdoor painting in 1939. Martínez Vázquez was known for his landscapes and received recognition with awards such as the second medal at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1915 for his work 'La plaza del Feudo' and the first medal in 1924 for 'Las nieves del Cirbunal'.