Agustín Redondela

Agustín Redondela (Spain, 1922–2015). A painter who was largely self-taught, he developed a body of work centered on landscape and linked to the Madrid school of painting of the second half of the 20th century.

He is considered a member of the so-called Third Madrid School and an heir to the innovative approaches to landscape painting of the Vallecas School. In his landscapes, he combined traditional realism with a Fauvist chromatic decorativism. His travels throughout Spain fostered his interest in this genre, while his style evolved through experimentation with materials, greater schematization, and a reduced color palette, eventually approaching the boundaries of non-figurative art.

He held his first solo exhibition at the Galería Estilo in Madrid in 1945. He won the National Painting Prize in 1953 and, a year later, a fellowship from the Catherwood Foundation in Philadelphia. In 1996, he received the González de la Peña Prize from the Royal Academy of San Fernando, and in 1998, the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid presented a retrospective exhibition of his work.