Marisa Roësset Velasco
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| Born | Marisa Luisa Roësset y Velasco March 6, 1904 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | November 18, 1976 (aged 72) Madrid, Spain |
| Burial place | Saint Isidore Cemetery, Madrid, Spain |
| Other names | Marisa Roesset, Marisa Roesset Velasco, Marisa Roesset y Velasco |
| Education | Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, teacher, school founder |
| Partner | Lola Rodríguez Aragón |
| Relatives | María Roësset Mosquera (paternal aunt), Rosario de Velasco (maternal cousin), Margarita Gil Roësset (paternal cousin), Consuelo Gil (paternal cousin) |
Marisa Roësset Velasco (née Marisa Luisa Roësset y Velasco; March 6, 1904 – November 18, 1976) was a Spanish figurative painter, and teacher.[1][2] She worked on portraits, genre scenes, and religious scenes;[3] and founded a painting school in Madrid that operated for 30 years.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Marisa Roësset Velasco was born on March 6, 1904, in Madrid, to father Eugenio Julio Roësset Mosquera.[3] She was born into a wealthy Madrid family of artists and writers.[2][4]
Her aunt was painter María Roësset Mosquera, whom she studied painting under in early life.[4] Roësset Velasco attended Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, and studied under teachers Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, and José María López Mezquita.[2] She attended art school classes alongside Salvador Dalí, and Victorina Durán.[4]
She became known as a painter through her exhibitions at the Lyceum Club Femenino, despite not holding a membership.[4] In the 1930s, Roësset Velasco opened a painting school in Madrid, that was active for 30 years.[2] Menchu Gal had been one of her students.[2]
Roësset Velasco discreetly had a lesbian relationship with the teacher at the Madrid Singing School, Lola Rodríguez Aragón, with whom she lived and to whom she left her pictorial work upon her death.[4][5]
Roësset Velasco died of cancer on November 18, 1976, in Madrid.[4]
Exhibitions
[edit]- 1924, Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, group exhibition, Madrid, Spain[3]
- 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, Barcelona, Spain[3]
- 1931, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain[3]
- 1941, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Roesset y Velasco, Marisa". Museo Nacional del Prado (in Spanish). Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation. Archived from the original on September 9, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Asenjo, Patricia Ponce de (February 12, 2023). "Las Roësset, una familia de artistas y el cambio de la situación de la mujer en España a principios del siglo XX" [The Roëssets, a family of artists and the changing status of women in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century]. El Debate (in Spanish). Retrieved April 14, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f "Roesset y Velasco, Marisa". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. October 31, 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00154605. Retrieved April 14, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f Mayordomo, Concha (September 14, 2017). "Marisa Roësset y Velasco". Tribuna Feminista (in Spanish). Retrieved April 14, 2025.
- ^ MD.B.P. (June 1, 2018). "Marisa Roesset Velasco". Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores (in Spanish).
External links
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Media related to Marisa Roësset Velasco at Wikimedia Commons
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