Salamanca
Segovia
Avila
Alcalá de
Henares
Madrid
Toledo
Eduardo Chillida
• 1924 – 2002 (Eduardo Chillida Juantegui)
• Basque from San Sebastián (Donostia)
• Materials: space 11 stories high inside a mountain
(one of Canary Islands), iron, steel, wood, alabaster,
cement, clay, paper, stone, and plaster
• One of 3 great 20th century sculptors (Brancusi,
Giocometti)
• 1971: professor at Harvard
• 1984: buys house/studio “Zabalaga” in Hernani
• 1986: creates logotype for Reina Sofía Museum,
Madrid
Eduardo Chillida and his
wife, Pila de Belzunce, in
a mirror in his Basque
farmhouse-studio (2000)
1950, married (8 children)
Eduardo Chillida and
his son Eduardo
Chillida Belzunce
“Guernica”; cement sculpture in Guernika
conmemorating 50th anniversary of Nazi bombing of
Guernika (1937 – 1987)
“Eulogy to water”; Barcelona (1987);
sculpture in concrete and steel wire
1953: “Yunque de los
sueños”
Wood and iron
“The House of J.S. Bach” (1980)
Steel
“The House of Hokusai” (1981)
Steel
“Elogio del vacío” (1983)
Steel
“Chair of Omar Khayyam III” (1983)
Steel
“Homage to Juan Gris” (1987)
Steel
“Homage to the Sea” (1984)
Alabaster
“Lurra 67” (1987)
Terracotta
Drawing of hand (undated, but from late
1940’s)
Chillida’s emblem for San Juan de la Cruz;
paper collage (1993)