JOSE ECHAVE
1921-1985
Painter and scenographer José ECHAVE was born in Salto, a province in the north of Uruguay, on 27 November 1921 to a Basque immigrant father (Joaquin ECHAVE) and an Italian immigrant mother (Léonor MAZZUCCHELLI).
In 1938, he began studying Medicine and Architecture, which he soon abandoned in order to devote himself exclusively to painting. At the end of 1939, he left for Argentina to study painting with Juan Carlos CASTAGNINO, Antonio BERNI and Lino SPILIMBERGO…
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