Biography and information
Jose Gutierrez Solana (Spanish José Luis Gutiérrez Solana, 1886, Madrid – June 24, 1945, ibid) – Spanish painter, graphic artist, writer and essayist.
The father is a native of Mexico who came to Spain on Affairs of the inheritance. Graduated from art Academy of San Fernando. In 1917 he settled in Madrid, closer to the range of Ramon Gomez de La Serna, who wrote a monograph about him (the artist wrote of don Ramon, Jose Bergamin and other members of the group gathered in the café Pombo, on the canvas of My friends, 1920). Exhibition in Paris (1928) failed. European fame came to Solan after 1936, when he made his third exhibition in Paris.
He wrote several books of travel essays (Madrid: scenes and manners, 2 vols., 1913-1918; Black Spain, 1920, etc.), as well as the novel Florencio Cornejo (1926).
