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Victorio Macho

  • Victorio Macho © Real Fundación de Toledo-Museo Victorio Macho

    Victorio Macho © Real Fundación de Toledo-Museo Victorio Macho

  

Speciality

Sculpture

 

 

Date of birth

Dec 23, 1887

Date of death

1966
  


"Sculptor. His passion for this art was defined by his discovery of the works of Alonso de Berruguete at the Valladolid Museum. He researched the genuine roots of Spanish racial features through sculpture."

He was born in Palencia in 1887. In 1897 he moved to Santander, where he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts. He later moved to Madrid, where he studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. His first works were busts-portraits of members of Santander society. He established his reputation as a sculptor with his first public work, the monument to Pérez Galdós in the Retiro Garden in Madrid. When Spanish Civil War broke out he settled in Colombia. After a spell in Peru, in 1952 he returned to Spain and set up home in Toledo, where he built his house-museum. On his death in 1966 he donated most of his works to Toledo.

Essential works

Other highlighted works

  • My Mother
  • Cristo del Otero
  • Menéndez Pelayo Tomb
  • Monument to Galdós in El Retiro
  • Monument to Ramón y Cajal in Madrid
  • Statute of the conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar
  • Monument to Uribe
  • Monument to Berruguete in Palencia

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Partial view of the façade of Villandrando College. Palencia
Palencia Palencia
El Sardinero Beach, with the city of Santander in the background © Turespaña
Cantabria Santander
View of Toledo © Turespaña
Toledo Toledo

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