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Eduardo Chillida

San Sebastian, Spain
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Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, (10 January 1924 - 19 August 2002) was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works.

Born in San Sebastian to Pedro Chillida and the soprano Carmen Juantegui on 10 January 1924, Eduardo Chillida grew up near the Biarritz Hotel, which was owned by his grandparents. Chillida had been the goalkeeper for Real Sociedad, San Sebastian's football team, before studying architecture at the University of Madrid from 1943 to 1946. In 1947 he abandoned architecture for art, and the next year he moved to Paris, where he set up his first studio and began working in plaster and clay. He never finished his degree and instead began to take private art lessons. He lived in Paris from 1948 to 50 and at Villaines-sous-Bois (Seine-et-Oise) from 1950 to 1955. In 1950 Chillida married Pilar Belzunce and later returned to the San Sebastian area, first to the nearby village of Hernani and in 1959 to the city of his birth, where he remained.

He died at his home near San Sebastian at the age of 78.

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mariathuroczy, February 13th, 2013
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