Callizo zaragoza pablo gargallo biography
The village of Ainsa is considered one of the most beautiful and best preserved medieval villages in Spain.!
Artists
Pablo Gargallo was born in 1881 into a peasant's family of Maella (Zaragoza). His family moved to Barcelona and he got a position as the assistant of sculptor Arnau i Mascort, a work which he combined with his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of La Lonja.
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Thanks to a bursary he could travel to Paris and came in contact with artists of the time such as Juan Gris and Max Jacob. After returning to Spain, a health problem forced him to reside for some time at La Garriga, where he started working on one of his most emblematic works: El Profeta ("The Prophet").
He was assigned to decorate several Catalonian institutions, from the Saint Cross Hospital to the bas-reliefs for the Bosque Theatre and the interior sculptures at the Palace of Music. In 1913 he returned to Paris and met who was to become his wife and his unconditional support, the young seamstress Magali Tartanson.
In the region of Montparnasse, where he would spend a great part of his life, he came into contact wit