Short description: Spanish painter (1854–1929)
Victoriano Balasanz Sánchez (23 March 1854 — 27 October 1929) was a Spanish painter.
Biography
Posthumous portrait of Joaquín Costa, 1913
Balasanz was born on 23 March 1854 in Castiliscar, although he was primarily circumscribed to Zaragoza. One of his teachers at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Zaragoza was Eduardo López del Plano (es),[2] also studying at the Escuela Especial de Madrid. He cultivated history painting in a "rather cold and awkward" manner, as described by Federico Torralba Soriano (es), and gained some reputation. Like Plano, he became a pensioner[2] and was in correspondence with Zenón Trigo when there were difficulties with the Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza (es). Related to spiritism, he died on 27 October 1929 in Montevideo, having emigrated to South America in old age.
References
Bibliography
- García Guatas, Manuel Santiago (1990). "Victoriano Balasanz (1854-1929), o la frustración de ser pintor en Zaragoza". Seminario de Arte Aragonés (44): 323–363. ISSN 0487-3491. https://www.garciaguatas.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Art1991BalasanzolafrustracionSemAAXLIV.pdf.
- García Guatas, Manuel Santiago; Lorente Lorente, Jesús Pedro (1 December 1987). "Pintores pensionados por el Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza". Artigrama (4): 235–258. doi:10.26754/OJS_ARTIGRAMA/ARTIGRAMA.198747623. https://core.ac.uk/works/141789691.
- Lorente, Jesús Pedro (2009). "Zaragoza como tema pictórico, 1908-2008". in Manuel Santiago García Guatas, Jesús Pedro Lorente Lorente, Isabel A. Yeste Navarro (coord.). La ciudad de Zaragoza de 1908 a 2008. Institución Fernando el Católico, Diputación de Zaragoza. pp. 169–190. ISBN 978-84-7820-997-2. https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/29/58/06lorente.pdf.
- Torralba Soriano, Federico (1979). Pintura contemporánea aragonesa. Guara Editorial.
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