Collection: Luis García Ochoa

Luis García-Ochoa Ibáñez (San Sebastián, March 18, 1920 - Madrid, February 20, 2019) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist, academic of Fine Arts.

Born in San Sebastián, at the age of 9 he moved with his family to Madrid. He began working in his father's architecture studio, where he trained in avant-garde art. He enrolled in Fine Arts in Madrid and expanded his studies in France, Italy and England with scholarships awarded by the Spanish and Italian governments.

Around 1942, and under the leadership and influence of Benjamín Palencia, he participated in the second Vallecas School, a group that served as the basis for the so-called Madrid School in the 1950s. At that stage it evolved from initial cubism to an expressionism of baroque compositions. of figures.

He was invited to the Venice Biennale in 1940, 1950, 1952 and 1954; He participated several times in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid as well as in several other group exhibitions and held numerous individual exhibitions. He also developed important work in the art of engraving and as a book illustrator.

On May 5, 1980, he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, and gave the entrance speech on November 19, 1983. In 1993, he founded the School of Figurative Painters of El Escorial.

His works are preserved in the Reina Sofía Art Center, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao, in the Juan March Foundation and other Spanish museums.