Elías Garralda Alzugaray (1926-2012) - Atardecer en el Llierca

Oil on canvas of 33 x 55 cm signed in the lower right corner and titled on the back. The frame is not included in the sale, but is sent as a gift. Elías Garralda Alzugaray (Lesaka, Navarra, February 16, 1926 - Olot, Girona, March 6, 2012) was a Spanish landscape painter. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Pamplona and later moved to Olot, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts. He held his first exhibition in Barcelona at the age of 22 and became a prominent member of the Olot school of landscape. His specialty was the landscapes of the Picos de Europa, Olot and Navarra. He exhibited in various galleries throughout Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao. . . His technique was to paint elaborately, from life. His technique was to paint elaborately, from life. The landscape world and the high mountains would be revealed to him very early in his eyes. He attended primary school in Pamplona. The outbreak of the civil war of 1936 had an impact on his family, moving to Bayonne. Later, they lived in Biarritz, where their father, D. Demetrio, was a physical education teacher. His love of art was accentuated at the age of 14 in front of the landscape agenda of the Gulf of Gascony and Lake Chiberta. His hobby reached such a point that his father decided to enrol him in the Academy of the prestigious French professor René Barnadin (poet, writer, painter, deeply informed of modern aesthetic currents. He cared about cultivating the retentive of his students) . After time, Demetrio decided to return and request re-entry into the teaching profession. Elías, enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts of Pamplona where he suffered a disappointment, since there the outdated pedagogical methods were still being used; copies of sheets and plaster busts. However, Elías trained in drawing, which he considered fundamental in art. At the same time he received advice from a great painter from Navarra, Jesús Basiano. The reentry of Demetrio Garralda in the Magisterio Nacional was approved, and they moved to Olot, capital of La Garrocha, a region of the province of Girona. This was providential for Elías Garralda. Olot was considered to be the "Catalan Barbizón". In its framework, "impressionism" was anticipated in Spain. The transfer of the Garralda took place in 1942. The town enjoyed great prosperity; its textile and pork meat industry was joined by its traditional cultivation of imagery; the "saints of Olot" were on the rise. The artistic vocation of Elías Garralda strengthened his contact with the cultural institutions of Olot. And he was reunited with the beloved Pyrenees. At the age of 16 he entered the School of Arts and Crafts, an entity that continued to "l'Escola de pintaix (1783) ", and continued from the "Escola Superior del Paisatge (1934) " created by the first Generalitat de Catalunya, award to the Olot dedication of landscaping. The famous Escola de Paisatge was developed after the war under the name of School of Arts and Crafts. But Garralda "made" himself by painting alongside the great masters; Soler Jorba, Gussinyé, Olivet Legares, Barnadas, Marsillach. . . NOTE: The work is not sent to Taiwan because it contains wood.