Pablo Palazuelo

Pablo Palazuelo had an early vocation to be a painter, although convinced by his father, he enrolled in 1932 in the preparation course to enter the Madrid School of Architecture.

In 1945 he attended the National Exhibition of Fine Arts with a portrait and participated in the first exhibition of the so-called Madrid School organized by the Karl Buchholz gallery.

In October 1948, he traveled to Paris, just a few months after rail communications with France had been restored after World War II.

His life in Paris, in those early years, where there were still very few Spanish artists present, was characterized by loneliness, which he reflected in the title he gave to a group of works completed in 1955, which he called Solitudes.

Since the beginning of the sixties, at the same time that he resumed sculpture, he began to make more and more trips to Spain and connect with the Spanish artistic circuits.

Around this time, Palazuelo reestablished his residence in Spain, after having spent almost twenty years in France.

Also during those years he met the businessman and art collector Juan Huarte, for whom he carried out several commissions, above all sculptures, and participated in a collective exhibition promoted by this businessman, in which Manolo Millares, Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida, Saenz de Oiza, Fernández Alba and Fullaondo.

In 1970, he acquired the castle of Monroy, in the province of Cáceres, and together with his brother Juan Palazuelo, an architect, he undertook its reconstruction and rehabilitation and there he established his painting studio in the space occupied by the old barn.

On his return to Spain, Palazuelo intensified his activity as a sculptor.

Palazuelo passed away on October 3, 2007 at the age of 91 in his family home in "La Peraleda" in Galapagar (Madrid).