José Caballero

After studying at the Colegio de los Padres Agustinos and his baccalaureate at the Instituto de Huelva, where he gave unquestionable signs of his ability to draw, he met the poet Adriano del Valle at the end of the 1920s.

In 1930 he moved to Madrid to study Industrial Engineering, which he abandoned two years later to enter the San Fernando School of Fine Arts and continue his classes in the studio of Daniel Vázquez Díaz, whom he had met in Huelva, painting the murals. of La Rábida Monastery.

In 1933 he frequently visited the Uruguayan constructivist painter Joaquín Torres García, and a year later the sculptor Alberto Sánchez, from whom he received important lessons.

In 1934 Federico García Lorca incorporated him into the "La Barraca" University Theater, where he would provide different drawings for the company's plays, he also designed the sets for the play Historia de un soldado at the Student Residence, and began his friendship with Pablo Neruda, Rafael Alberti, Miguel Hernández, Maruja Mallo or Luis Buñuel.

With the advent of the Civil War, several of these artists went into exile or disappeared.

In 1949 he made a painting for the Spanish Tourist Office and illustrated several books of poetry.

He died in Madrid on May 26, 1991, being buried in the city of Alcalá de Henares.