Laxeiro

Laxeiro

  • Birth and place of birth

    Birth and place of birth
    José Otero Abeledo, Laxeiro, was born in Donramiro, Lalín (a town that belongs to Pontevedra, Galicia).
  • Family

    Family
    He moved with his parents (María Josefa Abeledo and José Otero Fernández) to Botos, Vilamaior (a village very close of Lalín). He began to draw, motivated by the teachings of Teresa López, his teacher.
  • Childhood

    Childhood
    He emigrates to Cuba with his family. In Cuba he attends drawing classes and works as an assistant to Manuel Roig, choreographer of the Teatro Martín.
  • Adolescence

    Adolescence
    After working as a designer of artistic stained glass, he returned to Lalí, sick with tuberculosis. He decided to dedicate himself to painting professionally. That same year he oppened a barber shop in Lalín and began to be known as El pintor barbero, as he tirelessly drew clients and all kinds of popular characters.
  • Studies

    Studies
    He was awarded a scholarship by the Lalín CIty Council to travel to Madrid to study Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. A year later he managed to extend his stay in Madrid thanks to a scholarship from the Provincial Council of Pontevedra.
  • Carnavalada

    Carnavalada
    At just twenty-three years old, he composed what, together with he small cartoons painted by Castelao in 1921. Laxeiro had already travelled to Madrid to study as a free student at the royal Academy of FIne Arts of San Fernando. Carnavalada picks up on the tradition of Goya's Black Paintings, the tenebrism of Gutiérrrez Solana.
  • Important moment in his life

    Important moment in his life
    He held his first solo exhibition at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in Santiago de Compostela. He amazed intellectuals and critics and began to talk about a revolutionary form of painting for Galicia in those years.
  • El manantial de la vida

    El manantial de la vida
    He settled in Pontevedra as a drawing teacher at the Valle-Inclán Institute. He painted the famous mural El manantial de la vida, which can still be seen today in the Café Moderno in Pontevedra.
  • Trasmundo

    Trasmundo
    Laxeiro closes his granite period, recreating an altarpiece pf characters that synthesizes all his imagination in the form of a portico that invites you to enter the afterlife, passing through a central door.
  • Important moment in his life

    Important moment in his life
    He participated in the exhibition Fifty Years of Spanish Figurative Painting, organized by the Charpentier Gallery in Paris.
  • Death place and time

    Death place and time
    Laxeiro died in Vigo on the 21st of July.