Calle de Daniel Vázquez Díaz
It recalls Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882–1969), a painter from Huelva who introduced the language of Cubism to Spain and portrayed the great figures of his time.
Daniel Vázquez Díaz was born in 1882 in Nerva, in the mining basin of Huelva, and died in Madrid in 1969. He was meant for commerce, but the Museum of Fine Arts and the canvases of Zurbarán turned his course toward painting.
After settling in Madrid and copying at the Prado, came the Paris years, between 1906 and 1918, where he witnessed the birth of Cubism firsthand and learned to build his pictures out of solid planes, never abandoning the human figure. Back in Spain he taught that tempered Cubism, painted the series Hombres de mi tiempo, with the faces of Unamuno, Falla, and Ortega, and signed the frescoes of the Poema del descubrimiento in the monastery of La Rábida, which earned him the nickname of painter of Hispanidad.