Eugenio Fernández Granell (1912-2001) was a Spanish surrealist painter, writer and poet.
Eugenio Granell was born in La Coruña in 1912. He lived most of his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that marked a large part of his artistic work.
From a young age, he showed a great predisposition to art, specifically to music, and in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Escuela Superior de Música.
At the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, he joined the militias loyal to the republican government to defend the capital and combined this activity with the direction of El Combatiente Rojo, the POUM newspaper.
Thus, in 1939, he must move to France.
They embark to Chile but, given the impossibility of this country to receive more refugees, they divert to the Dominican Republic, where they will settle, now together with Amparo, in the capital, Ciudad Trujillo.
In 1946, only six years after settling in, under the hardening of the Trujillo dictatorship, he refused to sign a letter of adherence to the regime, so they had to leave the country and moved to Guatemala.
At the beginning of the Guatemalan revolution, in 1950, he had to flee the country again, for fear of Stalinist persecution.
In 1958 he met Marcel Duchamp, who praised his poetic and pictorial art, which led Eugenio Granell to reinforce his activity as a surrealist painter.
He moved to Spain permanently in 1985. He received numerous awards, including the Gold Medal for Fine Arts, awarded by the Council of Ministers.