Biography

Moreno Carbonero was born in the Perchel quarter of Málaga. In 1868 he joined the art school of his home town, where he was a student of José Denis Belgrano

José Denis Belgrano

José Denis Belgrano was a Spanish painter.Belgrano was given a scholarship by Carlos Larios, Marquess of Guadiaro, to study in Rome, where he lived for two years. Back to Málaga, he registered at the Malaga Art School in 1868, present-day Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Málaga, where he...

 and Bernardo Ferrándiz. At the age of 12 he took part in an art competition in Málaga and won a gold medal. In the same year he sold his first picture named "La Posada de la Corona" for 1,000 Peseta

Spanish peseta

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. In 1874 he participated in the national art exhibition and won the silver medal, in 1876 in the same exhibition the bronze medal. Also in 1876 he was awarded a scholarship by Marià Fortuny for further studies in Rome

Rome

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. When he returned to Spain, he won the national exhibition in 1881 with his painting "El príncipe don Carlos de Viana" and in 1887 with "La Conversión del Duque de Gandía". In 1888 he painted "Entrada de Roger de Flor en Constantinopla". After 1892 he taught as professor of naturalistic drawing at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

The Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando , located on the Calle de Alcalá in the heart of Madrid, currently functions as a museum and gallery....

. In 1924 he was made Hijo Predilecto. Like Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza

Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza

Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza was a Spanish painter.- Biography :...

 he was a teacher of Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

, and he taught also Juan Gris

Juan Gris

José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life...

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Later on José Moreno Carbonero was taught by Salvador Dalí and the young Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

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After his death, his body was transferred to Málaga, where he is buried in the San Miguel cemetery. Since 1958 a monument in the Puerta Oscura gardens, created by Mariano Benlliure

Mariano Benlliure

Mariano Benlliure was a Spanish sculptor, who executed many public monuments and religious sculptures in Spain, working in a heroic realist style....

, has remembered of him, and a street in the historic center of Málaga is named in honor of him. The collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes of Málaga includes more than 30 works of José Moreno Carbonero. A museum in Berlin

Berlin

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exhibited his work "Una aventura de Blas Gil".