We bid farewell to compañero Julio Mancebo

From federación Anarquista uruguaya (FAU)
June, 13, 2023

We mourn the death of comrade Julio Mancebo, who was a militant of Juventudes Libertarias and later one of the founding members of our Organization and also a part of OPR-33 [the guerilla wing of the FAU]. Needless to say: a great artist of our people.

¡Salú compañero!

More detailed obituary in Propuesta:

Julio Mancebo, the painter of El Cerro, passed away
Written by Redacción
June 10, 2023

The Uruguayan plastic arts community is in mourning. At the age of 89, the plastic artist Julio Mancebo passed away yesterday, Sunday, June 11.

Known as the painter of El Cerro, after decades of living on the boulevard that bears the name of his friend and teacher José Gurvich, one of the surviving artists of the mythical Torres García Studio has passed away at the age of 89.

Julio Mancebo was born in Montevideo on September 29, 1933. He began his studies with Manolo Lima in 1942 and in 1944 he joined the Torres Garcia Studio at the age of 11; together with Rodolfo Visca they were the youngest members of the studio.

When Torres García died in 1949, Mancebo was only 15 years old, but he continued attending the workshop, now under the direction of Augusto Torres and Julio Alpuy.

He then studied with José Gurvich in his studio in the Montevideo neighborhood of "El Cerro" where Gonzálo Fonseca, Antonio Pezzino and Rodolfo Visca also lived and painted.

He was imprisoned between 1975 and 1982 during the period of the civil-military dictatorship and in 1983 he went into exile in Stockholm, Sweden. There he founded, together with other exiles, "La Casa de la Cultura" (The House of Culture) in order to remain linked to the Uruguay and its activities.

In 1995, he returned to Uruguay and settled in the El Cerro neighborhood right next to where Gurvic's workshop used to be.

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Dayum... That fella lived a pretty long time. I don't think I'd like to live that long in our world. Who is the "our people" the article mentions? Are they Spaniards or anarchists or artists or?

Doubtful that they would be Spaniards considering he was Uruguayan.

Thanks. I was close and didn't see the last line. The article mentions he was a painter of a city in Spain.

Judging by the moustache he's a Spaniard with a Dali fixation, but I could be wrong!

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