Alberto

(b Toledo, 8 April 1895; d Moscow, 12 Oct 1962). Spanish sculptor. Of humble origins, he worked as an apprentice blacksmith, baker and shoemaker before dedicating himself to sculpture. From 1912 he served as an apprentice in the studio. Of the sculptor Jos? Estanys, learning how to cast in plaster. While performing his military service from 1917 (beginning in Melilla on the North African coast) he made busts and figures of Arabs in plaster. On his return to Madrid in 1920 he worked as a baker but also visited museums and produced posters for public meetings, and through Rafael Barradas, whom he knew casually, he began to inform himself about avant-garde artistic trends.

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