“HONOURED SCULPTOR, PERFECT GENTLEMAN AND LOVING FATHER...” AND POOR: ON THE FIRST CENTENARY OF THE DEATH OF THE SCULPTOR JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ Y GIMÉNEZ

Abstract

José González y Giménez, a sculptor born in Granada who played an important teaching role in different academies in Ecuador and Spain, spent his last years in Cordoba. Being little known its production and his life, there was a total ignorance of the circumstances of his last years. Thanks to the hemerographic sources and to unpublished documents from the archive of the Real Academia de BBAA de San Fernando, we have been able to reconstruct his last moments as a teacher and als  the bitter years that passed until his death. In this paper we address the situation of González y Giménez in his last years of life, as well as the role played by other artists in his retirement