Baltasar Lobo
Torse penché sur le côté
Baltasar Lobo (1910–1993) was a Spanish sculptor, artist and anarchist. Lobo participated during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 in the defense of the Republic and the legally elected government in Madrid, and subsequently went into exile, moving to Paris in 1939. In Paris, Lobo shared a studio with Henri Laurens, whose sculpture Les undines now stands face to face with Lobo’s Torse penché sur le côté in Marabouparken. Lobo also got to know Picasso and Joan Miro in Paris and was inspired by their reduced and basic design language. You can also find influences by Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp in Lobo’s works. Lobo later came to exhibit together with Fernand Léger, Matisse and Picasso among others. In Paris, Lobo befriended the Swedish sculptor Liss Eriksson and his wife, the painter Britta Reich Eriksson. This led to Lobo participating in a group exhibition in Stockholm and Oslo in 1948 arranged by the Norwegian and Swedish Spain committees for Spanish artists in exile. In connection with the exhibition, Lobo got to know the Family Ingrid and Conny Andersson in Björkhagen. Conny Andersson had volunteered in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Torse penché sur le côté has been donated to the Marabouparken Foundation by Kjell Andersson, son of Ingrid and Conny Andersson, and Mari Carmen Caballero Lobo, Baltasar Lobo’s niece. In 1984, Lobo received Spain’s national honorary award in sculpture. Lobo is buried in Paris at the Montparnasse cemetery. A Baltasar Lobo museum exists today in Zamora, near Lobo’s birthplace.