Leopoldo Romañach

Leopoldo Romañach - Portrait of a woman

Leopoldo Romañach y Guillen (1862–1951) was a Cuban painter and educator.[1]

He was born in Sierra Morena, Corralillo, in the province of Las Villas, Captaincy General of Cuba, Spanish Empire (now Cuba).[2]

Romañach was a professor of color theory at Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, and won a number of awards. The Republic of Cuba granted him in 1950 the Great Cross of the National Order of Merit of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.

Pastor Argudín Pedroso,[3] Amelia Peláez, Lesbia Vent Dumois, Jesus Castellanos, and Víctor Manuel García Valdés were among his students. The school, "Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas Leopoldo Romañach” in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba was named after him.

References

  1. ^ "Leopoldo Romañach". Cernuda Arte. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
  2. ^ "Leopoldo Romañach". Latin Art Core, Miami, Florida. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. ^ Schomburg, Arthur A. (1934-10-20). "Pastor Argudin Y Pedroso, Most Eminent Spanish Painter, A Negro, Says Schomburg". The New York Age. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-02-15 – via Newspapers.com.


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