Julio Gonzalez
1876 (Barcelona) / 1942
Initially a wrought iron craftsman in Catalonia, Julio Gonzalez arrived in Paris in 1900 where he assiduously frequented the avant-garde of the cosmopolitan and artistic Montparnasse of the time. Although he also painted, it was for his iron sculptures that he was recognized by his peers, first and foremost Picasso, and became a household name. His assumed modernity makes him one of the essential milestones in the history of sculpture, freeing himself from the aesthetic boundaries between cubism and surrealism, figuration and abstraction.
Initially a wrought iron craftsman in Catalonia, Julio Gonzalez arrived in Paris in 1900 where he assiduously frequented the avant-garde of the cosmopolitan and artistic Montparnasse of the time. Although he also painted, it was for his iron sculptures that he was recognized by his peers, first and foremost Picasso, and became a household name. His assumed modernity makes him one of the essential milestones in the history of sculpture, freeing himself from the aesthetic boundaries between cubism and surrealism, figuration and abstraction.