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HONOURS AND AWARDS

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1949         

  • Provincial Painting Awards from Educación y Descanso, Ciudad Real

1950         

  • Special Award (Artistic Drawing) from the School of Arts and Crafts, Madrid

1950–51    

  • Prize for Drawing from the Antique and of Drapery, Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

  • Drawing Prize, Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

1951–52   

  • Prize for Life Drawing, First Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

  • Carmen del Río’s Painting Award at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

1952–53   

  • Estado’s Award for Colouring and Composition, First Course at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

  • Carmen del Río’s Painting Award at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

1953–54   

  • Madrigal’s Award for Colouring and Composition, Second Course at the  Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

  • Bursary Award El Paular for the Course of Landscape at the Academy of  Fine Arts of San  Fernando, Madrid

1955         

  • Travel Grant to Italy from the Ministry of Education (III National Competition for Plastic Artists), Spain

1957         

  • Jaén County Council Award from the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, Spain

1958         

  • Molino de Plata Award from the Regional Exhibition of Valdepeñas, Spain             

  • Still Life Award from the Fundación Rodríguez Acosta, Granada, which consisted in a travel bursary that he used to visit Greece   

  • Travel bursary from the Ministry of Education, Spain, which he used to travel to Rome

1959         

  • Molino de Plata Award from the Regional Exhibition of Valdepeñas, Spain

1961         

  • Scholarship from the Fundación Juan March, Spain

1965         

  • National Architecture Prize, Spain,  shared with the Architect Heliodoro Dols given it was a joint work

1974         

  • Prize of the City of Darmstadt, Germany

1983         

  • Pablo Iglesias Award, Madrid

  • Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, Spain

1985         

  • Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Spain

  • Golden ABC, Madrid

1986         

  • Gold Medal of Castilla La Mancha, Spain

1990         

  • Gold Medal of the Community of Madrid, Spain

1992         

  • Tomás Francisco Prieto Award from the Mint House, Madrid

1993          

  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid

2003         

  • Prize of Plastic Arts and Architecture of El Mundo and the Community of  Castilla La Mancha

2004         

  • Medal of Honour from the Menéndez Pelayo International University, Santader City of Alcala de Henares Award for the Arts, Spain

  • Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2006         

  • Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts, Ministry of Culture, Spain

2009         

  • Penagos Drawing Prize of the Mapfre Foundation, Madrid

2010         

  • Gold Medal of the City Council of Madrid

2011         

  • Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the University of Navarra

2012         

  • Prince of Viana Award of Culture, Navarra

  • International Medal of Arts of the Community of Madrid

2013          

  • Honorary Member of the University Faculty of Arts, University of Alcalá, Madrid

2014          

  • Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the University of Murcia                 

  • 2014 Rosa d’Oro della Milanesiana Award, Milan, Italy

2015          

  • Medal of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Seville 2015 Fuera de Serie Arts Award, Expansión, Spain                   

  • Raíces de Europa Award, Spain

2017         

  • Gold Medal of the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, Spain                   

  • Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, Valencia                 

  • Averroes Gold Award City of Córdoba 2017 to the Arts, Spain

2018         

  • Doctor Honoris Causa Degree by the Universidad Complutense, Madrid

  • Medal of Honor by the University Carlos III, Madrid                 

  • Honour Member of the Association of Architecture of Madrid (COAM)

2019          

  • Fundación de Fomento Europeo Prize, Barcelona

2020          

  • Award Florencio Galindo de las Letras, Ávila

2021          

  • Honour Member of the Institución Gran Duque de Ávila, Diputación de Ávila

 

2022          

  • XVI Sport Cultura Barcelona Awards, Fundación RBA, Barcelona

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