Nuria Quevedo

Nuria Quevedo Teixidó (18 March 1938 – 22 November 2025) was a Spanish painter and graphic artist, affiliated with the Communist Party, who lived in Berlin from the age of 15.

Life and career Nuria Quevedo's father, José Quevedo Fernández, was an aviator of the Spanish Republican Air Force. In 1939, he left Spain for France, along with her mother, but he soon returned to Barcelona, where he stayed until 1942. That year, the whole family reunited, this time in Berlin, where her father worked for the Nazis. In 1945, mother and daughter moved to Barcelona, and in 1952, they returned to meet with their father in East Berlin, where they would settle permanently.

In East Berlin, Quevedo studied at the Higher School of Visual and Applied Arts in Weissensee, with , Arno Mohr, and Klaus Wittkugel, later becoming a student at the East German Academy of Arts. She worked in a bookstore owned by the family.

As a painter, she became well known in East Germany, where she exhibited together with .

Several of the artist's works have been sold at auction, including Teixidó Betrachtung des Fisches, sold at the Schmidt Art Auction's "Auction 42" in 2014.

Nuria Quevedo herself considered that her first works were very influenced by Solana.

Quevedo died on 22 November 2025, at the age of 87.

Recognitions Nuria Quevedo was awarded the Goethe Prize by the East Berlin City Council.