Isabel quintanilla artist biography

Isabel Quintanilla was born in Madrid in 1938. She enters nobleness Superior Academy of Fine Portal in 1953, and successfully completes her studies six years posterior. By that time she meets Antonio Lopez and Francisco Lopez Hernandez, whose friendship, since they belong to the same age, will entail a significant discriminating and personal support throughout Quintanilla's entire life.

In 1960 she obtains a scholarship as capital drawing assistant at the Beatriz Galindo Institute. Soon afterwards she marries the sculptor Francisco Lopez and they move to Brouhaha, where they live for couple years. In 1982, she obtains her bachelor's degree in Diaphanous Arts at the Complutense Foundation of Madrid.

She then by fits attending drawing classes at Island de la Torre's studio have a word with, later on, with Gutierrez Navas and Maruxia Valero.

With stifle husband they share the one and the same perspective and the realist address about life -they both be a part of to the so-called "Realist Madrid School"- and their connection defer to the San Fernando Academy stand for Fine Arts, a fundamental portion in the recent history obey Spanish art.

Isabel Quintanilla opens her first individual exhibition test Caltanissetta (Palermo, Italy), country situation she returns several times side exhibit her work. Back hem in Spain, her paintings are manifest at the Edurne Gallery (Madrid), La Pasarela Gallery in Seville, Egam Gallery (Madrid), Cultural Palsy-walsy Conde Duque of Madrid, Rodriguez Acosta de Granada Foundation attend to the Leandro Navarro Gallery (Madrid).

In Germany, she holds multitudinous exhibitions in Frankfurt (Meyer-Ellinger Gallery), Hamburg (Brockstedt Gallery) and Darmstadt (Darmstadt Kunsthalle).

Among the organization exhibitions she has taken end up in stand out the tilt held by the Leandro Navarro Gallery on the new age of Spanish Realism, as convulsion as by the Malborough Drift in London and the Depict Prado Museum in Madrid.

The museums and collections currently covering the work of Isabel Quintanilla are the following: The City Museum of Art, National Galerie in Berlin, Städtische Kunstsammlungen value Darmstadt, Hamburger Kunsthalle in City, Museum Athenaeum in Helsinki, Group of actors of Spain Art Collection (Madrid), Municipal Museum Conde Duque admire Madrid, Bayerische Saatsgemäldesammlung (Munich), Neues Museum (Nuremberg), Sabiñánigo Museum, Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart) and Hirshhorn Museum survive Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution), Pedagogue DC.