Calle Daniel Urrabieta

Daniel Urrabieta Vierge was born in Madrid in 1851 and left young for Paris, where he signed his drawings for the illustrated press as “Vierge” and raised pen and ink to the level of oil painting. Critics called him the father of modern illustration. Around 1881 a hemiplegia paralysed the hand he drew with; he then learned to draw with his left, and with that hand he signed his greatest work: the plates for an English edition of Don Quixote. The street belongs to the El Viso estate, the cluster of rationalist villas that Rafael Bergamín designed in the 1920s beside the final stretch of calle Serrano. Among gardens and whitewashed walls, the estate’s street names pay tribute to artists.