Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja

He was born in Palencia in 1905 where he spent his childhood and youth.

In 1929 he traveled to Paris, where he spent the winter, learning first-hand about cubism.

In 1937 he joined the Communist Party of Spain, after meeting his partner Isabel Fernández Almansa, to whom he was affiliated all his life;

In 1948 he was arrested and imprisoned for his links to republicanism;