Manuel Hernández Mompó

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1966

Manuel Hernández Mompó was born in Valencia in 1927 and died in Madrid in 1992. Painter, engraver and sculptor, he began his training with his father drawing teacher, and attended the School of Arts and Crafts before entering in 1942 at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, where he concluded his studies in 1949. Before finishing his career in 1946 he won a Gold Medal at the Exhibition of Anniversary Art of Valencia, and in 1948 he celebrated his first individual show at the Center of Granada, where he expanded knowledge with a scholarship from the University of Granada. In 1951 he traveled to Paris with a scholarship from the school of Spain and contact with the circles of informal painters. There he met French, Palazuelo and Chillida, with whom he later exhibited at the La Boitiè gallery. In 1954 he traveled to Rome with a scholarship at the Spanish Academy. He later moved to Holland where he came into contact with the artists of the "COBRA" group that had a strong impact on him. In this first stage he works primarily on paper and evolves from a popular thematic figure to an abstraction with figurative suggestions.