BIOGRAFIE
1924 | Born in San Sebastian, Spain |
1943 - 1946 | Studied architecture at the University of Madrid, Spain |
1947 | Left architecture and studied drawing at a private school in Madrid, Spain |
1954 | A group of Franciscan monks commission him to design the four doors of their basilica at Aranzazu (Basque country) |
1971 | Visiting Professor at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
2002 | Died in San Sebastian, Spain |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
1993 | Elected Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
1993 | Elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA |
1991 | Received the Imperial Prize created by the Japan Art Association |
1988 | Received the Order for Science and Art, awarded by the Federal German Government |
1987 | Awarded the Principe de Asturias de las Artes Prize in Madrid, Spain and the Lorenzo-il-Magnifico Prize in Florence, Italy |
1986 | Received the Revista Euzkadi prize in Bilbao, Spain |
1985 | Received the Kaiserring prize, awarded by the city of Goslar, West Germany and received the Wolf Foundation prize for Sculpture in Israel |
1984 | The French government awarded him the Grand Prix National des Beaux-arts |
1983 | Elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK and received the European Prize for Fine Arts in Strasbourg, France |
1981 | Received the Medalla de oro al Merito de las Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain |
1978 | Shared with Willem de Kooning the Andrew W. Mellon Prize and received the Pau i Treva prize in Perpignan, France |
1975 | Awarded the Rembrandt Prize of the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe, Stiftung Frankfurt, Germany |
1974 | Awarded The Diano Marina Prize in Milan, Italy |
1966 | Won Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Prize and the Nordrhein-Westfalen Prize at Düsseldorf, Germany |
1964 | Awarded Carnegie Prize for his sculpture at Pittsburgh International, Pittsburgh, PA |
1960 | Awarded the Kandinsky Prize by Nina Kandinsky |
1958 | Awarded the prize of the Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Museo Chillida-Leku, Hernani, Spain Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |