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The painter Luis González Lefort was born in Valladolid on January 30, 1878, being baptized in the church of San Juan Bautista on February 8 of the same year. His parents were Hilario González and María Lefort.
As a student at the Institute, he enrolled, at the age of 15, in the School of Fine Arts, where he only remained for two academic years. Later he went to Madrid to perfect his skills in the workshop of the painter Luis Álvarez Catalá. During that same period he went to the Prado Museum to copy, becoming interested in works by Montero Calvo, Mélida, Urgell, Beruete, Murillo, Velázquez, Tiziano and Goya, abandoning then the career of Law.
In 1896 he began to hold numerous exhibitions in Valladolid, participating that same year in the Poster Contest of the Fair, in which he won First Prize. Two years later, in 1898, he participated in the National Exhibition with the painting Sin trabajo, and around the same time he opened in Valladolid a studio dedicated to photography, under the name of "El Centro Artístico".
In his short life, he also cultivated the landscape genre with works such as Orillas del Canal de Castilla, or Afueras de la ciudad; social painting in representations such as the already mentioned Sin trabajo or the one entitled Aprovechando la ocasión, and even portraits such as José Zorrilla or Núñez de Arce
As a student at the Institute, he enrolled, at the age of 15, in the School of Fine Arts, where he only remained for two academic years. Later he went to Madrid to perfect his skills in the workshop of the painter Luis Álvarez Catalá. During that same period he went to the Prado Museum to copy, becoming interested in works by Montero Calvo, Mélida, Urgell, Beruete, Murillo, Velázquez, Tiziano and Goya, abandoning then the career of Law.
In 1896 he began to hold numerous exhibitions in Valladolid, participating that same year in the Poster Contest of the Fair, in which he won First Prize. Two years later, in 1898, he participated in the National Exhibition with the painting Sin trabajo, and around the same time he opened in Valladolid a studio dedicated to photography, under the name of "El Centro Artístico".
In his short life, he also cultivated the landscape genre with works such as Orillas del Canal de Castilla, or Afueras de la ciudad; social painting in representations such as the already mentioned Sin trabajo or the one entitled Aprovechando la ocasión, and even portraits such as José Zorrilla or Núñez de Arce
