José Gutiérrez-Solana was a Spanish painter born in 1886 in Madrid. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando between 1900-1904. He was known as "the painter of black Spain" and was influenced by tragic events in his childhood. During trips between 1909-1917 through parts of Spain, he sketched scenes from cemeteries, hospitals, and carnivals. Gutiérrez-Solana participated in social gatherings in Madrid and befriended other Spanish artists and writers. He exhibited his work in Paris in 1928 but it was not well received. Gutiérrez-Solana developed a subjective and pessimistic personal style reflecting his vision of Spain. He continued

1. JOSÉ GUTIÉRREZ-SOLANA
WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BY: Candela Fernández, Claudia Cubino,
Natalia López and Lucia Noguera.

2. HE WAS
BORN:
▪ In Madrid on the 28th of February in
1886.

3. INTRODUCTION
▪ He started drawing, thanks to his
uncle José Díez Palma.
▪ He studied in the “School of Fine Arts
of San Fernando” (1900-1904). In the
1906 he got an honorable mention at
the “National Exhibition of Fine Arts.”
▪ Some tragic events of his childhood
mark his temperament and his work.
He is known as “the painter of black
Spain”

4. TRIPS
▪ Between 1909 and 1917, he needed
to travel a lot through Castilla la
Mancha, Castilla y León, Madrid,
Andalucía y Aragón
▪ Why?
▪ Because he had moved to Cantabria
▪ In 1917 he came back to Madrid

5. SKETCHES During his trips, he took some sketches of
cemeteries, hospitals and carnivals.

6. HIS FAMILY PARENTS
Manuel Gutiérrez-Solana Castillo
Antonia Gómez de Hermosa
SIBLINGS
Josefa Refugio Gutiérrez-Solana
Tomás Gutiérrez-Solana
Luisa Francisca Gregoria Gutiérrez-Solana
Ona Gutiérrez-Solana
María Gutiérrez- Solana married to Francisco
Reig López
Juana Gutiérrez-Solana
José Gutiérrez-Solana

7. José Solana Ramona Bengara Francisco Jordán María Morea
Pedro Solana Bengara / Rosa Jordán MoreaÁngel Larripa /Joaquina Longas Calvo
Mariano Larripa Longas / Irene Solana Jordán
ADORACIÓN Larripa Solana
ALBERTA Larripa Solana
ANDRES Larripa Solana
FELIPA Larripa Solana
FELISA Larripa Solana
ILUMINADA Larripa Solana
JUAN Larripa Solana
JUSTO Larripa Solana
MARCOS Larripa Solana
MERCEDES Larripa Solana
MIGUEL Orderica Solana

8. His participation in the Cafe Pombo
social gathering made Ramón Gómez
de la Serna dedicate his book to Solana,
who, in turn, would give one of his most
famous paintings to the writer.
SOLANA AS A
PAINTER

9. SOLANA AS
AN ENGRAVER
He also mingled with people such as
Ramon María del Valle Inclán, Ricardo
Baroja, Julio Romero de Torres and
Ignacio Zuloaga.

10. SOLANA AS A
WRITER
• Gutiérrez Solana made his first
exhibition in Paris (1928), which
resulted a failure
•In 1936 the Spanish Civil War breaks
and Solana is famous and well known
inside and outside of Spain.

11. MOVING He moved to Valencia and then to
París, where he published the book
“París” (1938) . In 1939 he returned to
Madrid

12. DEATH He died on the day of San Juan, June
24, 1945, in Madrid.

13. HIS STYLE
▪ In 1917 , he started to develop his
own personal style. Nothing too
academical and still foreign to Avant-
Garde.

14. STYLE
CORISTAS (1927)
His painting reflects a vision which is:
● Subjective
● Pessimistic
● Degraded of the Spain of the
Generation of ´98

15. STYLE
● Sometimes, he used other
photographs as models for his
paintings. The clearest example is
his painting titled “CAFÉ
CANTANTE”, which was copied
almost literally from the famous
photograph of the same title by
Emilio Beauchy , taken around the
year 1888 in Seville.
CAFÉ CANTANTE (1886-1945)

16. FACTS
● In his first exhibition in Paris in
which the king went, his paintings
were placed behind the door so as
not to scare him.
CLOWNS (1920)

17. FACTS ● He started painting during his
journey from Madrid to Santander,
painting what he saw in the way.
● This painting of a bullfighter is an
example of this.
EL LECHUGA (1916)

18. FACTS
● Jose Solana was born during
Carnival. Because of this, some of
his paintings are related to
Carnival and people with masks
appear in many of them.
CARNIVAL (1917)

19. THE
END!