{"id":10131,"date":"2019-12-23T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/personaje\/caballero-jose\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:42:07","slug":"caballero-jose","status":"publish","type":"personaje","link":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/personaje\/caballero-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Caballero, Jos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spanish painter, draftsman, engraver and scenographer, friend and collaborator of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n

He was born in Huelva in 1915, into a well-to-do family. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Huelva, although from the beginning he showed his attachment to surrealism influenced by artists such as Adriano del Valle. In 1929, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando and in the workshop of V\u00e1zquez D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n

In his hometown he exhibits twice at the People\u2019s Cultural Center. The first, in 1931, sepia and pencil portraits, and the second, in 1932, in a group exhibition entitled New Art Week<\/i>. It was Jos\u00e9 Caballero who convinced Federico to collaborate with eight drawings, among them the Death of Saint Rodegunda<\/i>.<\/p>\n

In 1960 the Garc\u00eda Lorca family commissioned him to design the sets for the premiere of Yerma<\/i> at the Festival de Ambos Mundos in Spoletto (Italy), a success that would be repeated in 1962 with the staging of Blood Wedding<\/i>, at the Fine Arts Theater, also in Madrid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the proclamation of the Republic, Caballero participated as set and costume designer in La Barraca<\/a>, along with other painters such as Santiago Onta\u00f1\u00f3n<\/a>, Ram\u00f3n Gaya, Alfonso Ponce de Le\u00f3n or Benjam\u00edn Palencia. It was not the only collaboration with Lorca. In 1934, he designed the poster for the premiere of Yerma<\/i><\/a> and signed, at Lorca’s suggestion, the surrealist illustrations that accompanied the edition of Lament for a Bullfighter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in the Cruz y Raya<\/em> magazine by Jos\u00e9 Bergam\u00edn<\/a>. In 1935, Caballero was in charge of the sets for Blood Wedding <\/i><\/a>for its presentation in Barcelona on November 22 at the Principal Palace.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Above: Jos\u00e9 Caballero and Rafael V\u00e1zquez Aggerholm. Below: Cipriano Rivas Cherif, sculptor Eva Aggerholm, Daniel V\u00e1zquez D\u00edaz, Ernesto Halffter and Juan Manuel D\u00edaz-Caneja, preparing the premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Soldier’s Tale”. Residencia de Estudiantes. Madrid, 1931 \/ Photo: josecaballero.info<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the Civil War he was called up in Huelva, which was in the hands of the rebels. After the war, his friends freed him somehow from his Republican past: he founded the theater group La Tarumba dedicated to classical theater, collaborated with the new regime and published in magazines such as V\u00e9rtice<\/i> or illustrated books by Falangist writers such as Rafael Garc\u00eda Serrano.<\/p>\n

In 1960, the Garc\u00eda Lorca family commissioned him to design the sets for the premiere of Yerma<\/i> at the Festival de Ambos Mundos in Spoletto (Italy), a success that was repeated in 1962 with the staging of Blood Wedding<\/i>, at the Fine Arts Theater, also in Madrid. <\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibitions on Caballero’s work followed from here on in different cities. In 1987, he founded the group Ruedo Ib\u00e9rico with the intention of defending experimentation in art.<\/p>\n

\"Verbena<\/a>
St. John and St. Peter’s Eve, in Madrid’s Plaza de Atocha, June 29, 1936. Jos\u00e9 Caballero, Morales, Adolfo Salazar, L\u00f3pez Valencia, Eduardo Ugarte (co-director of La Barraca), Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Rafael Rap\u00fan, the bullfighter Pepe Amor\u00f3s and Mor\u00e1n. \/ Photo: josecaballero.info<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the end of his life he received many awards: the National Plastic Arts Award in 1984 and the Andalusian Culture Plastic Arts Award in 1989. His paintings can be found in galleries all over the world, from the Reina Sofia Center in Madrid to the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires or the Chase Manhattan in New York.<\/p>\n

He died on May 26, 1991, in Madrid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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