José Luis Alonso Coomonte
José Luis Alonso Coomonte | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1932 Benavente, Zamora, Spain |
| Died | (aged 93) |
| Known for | Sculpture |
José Luis Alonso Coomonte (1932 – 4 December 2025), also known as Josepito, was a Spanish sculptor and academic.
Life and career
Alonso Coomonte was born in Benavente in 1932. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando between 1950 and 1954, and after obtaining a scholarship to extend his sculpture studies in Segovia he moved to Paris.[1] He earned his Doctorate of Arts from the University of Salamanca.[2]
As a sculptor, he worked with different materials including wood, concrete, stone, wrought iron and glass.[3] His early work is essentially figurative marked as sacred art, but his creative impulse leads him to evolve coexisting with cubism, works such as Discobolus (1961) or Tightrope Walkers (1955), both constructed using iron, with abstraction in the work Dynamic Form (1964) in which he already investigates with polyester.[4]
Notable works include a Fountain, located in the Garden of the Parque de las Naciones in Madrid, constructed in 1965.[5] In Zamora, there is a tourist route of contemporary art that highlights the sculptures of Alonso Coomonte.[6]
Alonso Coomonte died on 4 December 2025, at the age of 93.[7]
References
- ^ González Vicario, María Teresa (1 January 1989). "Coomonte, hoy" [Coomonte, today]. Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte (in Spanish) (2). doi:10.5944/etfvii.2.1989.2130. ISSN 2340-1478.
- ^ Alonso Coomonte, José Luis (1997). La rejería en la obra de José Luis Alonso Coomonte (Doctoral thesis) (in Spanish). Universidad de Salamanca.
- ^ García Martín, Javier (5 December 2025). "Volver a nacer, Coomonte" [To be born again, Coomonte]. La Opinión de Zamora (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ "Alonso Coomonte y el arte sacro" [Alonso Coomonte and Sacred Art]. Cadena SER (in European Spanish). 4 July 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ "José Luis Alonso Coomonte". Escultura Urbana (in Spanish). September 2023 [January 2011]. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ "Ruta Coomonte". ZINQ (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ "Fallece el escultor zamorano José Luis Alonso Coomonte, ex profesor de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad" [Zamoran sculptor José Luis Alonso Coomonte, former professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University, has died]. La Gaceta de Salamanca (in Spanish). 4 December 2025. Retrieved 8 December 2025.