Lorenzo Aguirre

Lorenzo Victoriano Aguirre Sánchez (14 November 1884 – 6 October 1942) was a Spanish painter. He also worked as a caricaturist, poster artist and set designer.

Biography He was born in Pamplona, Spain, but his parents moved to Alicante when he was four years old. There he had his first art lessons at the age of eleven with Lorenzo Casanova. In 1899 he went to Madrid, where he attended the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando; in 1904 he became a drawing teacher at the "Escuela Especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado", a satellite school of the academy. Six year later, he went to Paris, where he worked in the set designing studio at the Paris Opera. He also took private lessons from the Swiss artist Alice Bailly. Two of his daughters also became well-known: Jesusa (b. 1932) as an artist, and Francisca (1930–2019) as a poet. His grandson is the poet Carlos Martínez Aguirre.