Calle Pintor Moreno Carbonero

José Moreno Carbonero was born in Málaga in March 1858. He trained at the San Telmo Higher School of Fine Arts under Bernardo Ferrándiz, and in 1875 the Málaga provincial council paid for a trip to Paris to enter the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme. He then completed his training in Rome. His great success came with The Prince Carlos of Viana, a colossal canvas of 310 by 242 centimetres that now hangs in the Prado Museum and that in 1881 won him the first medal at the National Exhibition. From 1892 he held the chair of Life Drawing at the Special School of Painting in Madrid, and two of the great names of the century’s art passed through his hands: Juan Gris took lessons from him around 1904, and Pablo Picasso enrolled at San Fernando in the 1897-98 course. He died in Madrid in 1942. Of when the Guindalera street took its present name no trace remains in the sources.