Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ferrándiz and the second or maternal family name is Bádenes.
Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes

Monument in Málaga
by Agapit Vallmitjana i Barbany
Born (1835-07-22)July 22, 1835
El Cabanyal, Valencia
Died May 2, 1885(1885-05-02) (aged 49)
Málaga
Nationality Spanish
Education Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia
Known for painting

Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes (21 July 1835, Valencia - 3 May 1885, Málaga) was a Spanish costumbrista painter. He is considered to be one of the founders of the "Escuela Malagueña".

Biography

He was born to a fisherman in the port district known as "El Cabanyal". He began his artistic education at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos with Francisco Martínez Yago (1814-1895).[1] He later spent some time at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando with Federico de Madrazo. He showed an early preference for genre scenes from everyday life.

His painting, "The Viaticum", which portrayed a dying beggar, won him a stipend from the Diputación de Valencia which enabled him to continue his studies abroad.[2] In 1859, he went to Paris, where he took classes at the École des Beaux-Arts and exhibited at the Salon.[1] He would make Paris his home base until 1868.

Undated photograph (1860s?)

He travelled throughout North Africa and Italy and participated in numerous expositions, obtaining honorable mention at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1860. He was awarded second place there in 1864 and a silver medal in 1866.

In 1868, he was married and went to Málaga, where he had been given the Chair of Color and Composition at the Escuela de Bella Artes de San Telmo, despite some strong opposition.[2] Ten years later, he was named the school's Director. Among his notable students there were José Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet and José Denis Belgrano. Because of his Republican sympathies, he was forced to leave Spain during the Third Carlist War and live in Rome until 1876.[2]

His works are widely dispersed throughout Western Europe, although thirteen paintings are preserved at the Museo de Málaga. One of his best known canvases portrays a meeting of the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia shortly after its creation. It was bought by Napoleon III and is currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.[1] In addition to his paintings, he decorated the ceiling at the Teatro Cervantes.[2]

A monument to him has been installed in the Parque de Málaga. It was designed by the sculptor Agapito Vallmitjana, who died before its dedication in 1913.

Selected paintings

References

  1. 1 2 3 Brief biography @ the Museo del Prado.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Brief biography @ the Carmen Thyssen Museum.

Further reading

External links

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