TIMOTEO PÉREZ RUBIO

Timoteo Pérez Rubio was born in Oliva de la Frontera (Badajoz). He started his studies of painting thanks to a city administration scholarship that gave him a possibility to study in the School of Arts and Craftsmanship of Badajoz, which he later continued in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. The decade of the twenties and the thirties is marked by his participation in the national expositions of Fine Arts, and especially by the grant of the first medal for his work Landscape of Normandy in 1932.

In the mid-twenties he finds himself in Rome with a pension of the Academy, undertaking various journeys to Paris and Normandy. His painting acquires some echoes of cubism and magic realism.

Pérez Rubio’s artistic career took shape in the thirties. In 1931 he was nominated subdirector of the Museum of the Modern Art of Madrid. In the following year he signed the declaration of the Society of the Spanish Artists, took part in its expositions in Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris, and worked in the committee of his magazine Art.

During the civil war the Alliance of Antifascist Intellectuals for the Protection of the Culture was created and he was one of its founders; he was nominated president of the central direction of the National Artistic Treasury by the government of the Republic and directed the programs of the collection of works of art from different churches, museums, etc., protection of monuments against the bombardments and above all the evacuation of hundreds of works of the Museum of Prado, Palacio Real, El Escorial, and other museums and institutions from Madrid to Valencia.

In 1939 he took up his residence in Geneva for some time, where he painted and exposed his works, and afterwards in 1940 he went to live in Brazil.

Timoteo Pérez Rubio died in Río de Janeiro in 1977.

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