Encarnación López Júlvez was born in Buenos Aires in 1895, the daughter of Spanish immigrants, and left with them for Spain in 1901. She was successful from being a young girl but would reach true heights when she associated herself with the Generation of 27. She was a triumph in Paris and Berlin with pieces adapted from popular tradition. She took part in artistic movements of the time, alongside Alberti, García Lorca, Neville and Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, her lover. In the 2nd Republic, she formed her ballet company and prepared her first choreographed pieces: Las calles de Cádiz, Sevillanas del siglo XVIII and El Café de Chinitas, with texts by Lorca and stage design by Dalí. When the Civil War broke out, she fled Spain. She died in exile in New York in 1945.
Awards
Alphonse X the Wise Medal (posthumous)
Order of Isabella the Catholic (posthumous)
-
El Café de Chinitas
Representative work by Encarnación López 'La Argentinita' in which she pays homage to the cafés of Malaga in the 19th century.
More info
Other highlighted works
- Goyescas
- Sevillanas del siglo XVIII
