ADELARDO COVARSI YUSTAS

Adelardo Covarsi was born in Badajoz on 24 April 1885. Almost twenty years later, in 1903, he entered Madrid Specialized School of Painting, Sculpture and Drawing, and remained there for four years, adding to his education continuous trips to Spain, Italy, France, England and Portugal. When the learning period finished he returned to his hometown and started to teach drawing in the School of Arts and Crafts, and at the same time often participated in national arts exhibitions and finally in 1948 his work was rewarded with a medal of honour.

Covarsi was always really attached to his birthplace, as apart from his work as a teacher he also joined the directorship of Badajoz School of Arts and became one of the founders of the Provincial Painting Museum.  During the last years of his life given the good relationships which he developed in the contemporary Barcelonan society he created a lot of significant portraits.

But mainly he depicted everyday life with lots of landscapes and regional peculiarities, and his style developed from the initial timid impressionism to the mature manner intrinsic to the middle stage of his career, i.e. the distinct realism.  Covarsi died in Badajoz in 1951.