Ignacio zuloaga y zabaleta biography of albert

Spanish painter (1870–1945)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Zuloaga and the second or maternal family name is Zabaleta.

Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870 – October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar, Guipuzcoa, near the monastery of Loyola.

Family

He was the son of metalworker and damascenerPlácido Zuloaga and grandson of the organizer and director of the royal armoury (Don Eusebio) in Madrid. His uncle was Daniel Zuloaga.^[1] His great-grandfather who was also the royal armourer was a friend and contemporary of Goya.^[2]

Biography

In his youth, he drew and worked in the armourer's workshop of his father, Plácido.^[3] His father's craftmanship, a familial trade, was highly respected throughout Europe, but he intended his son for either commerce, engineering, or architecture, but during a short trip to Rome with his father, he decided to become a painte