Benjamín Palencia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benjamín Palencia

Spanish painter

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1894

Place of Birth: Barrax, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1980

Profession: painter

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Benjamín Palencia (7 July 1894 - 16 January 1980) was a Spanish painter and draftsman from Barrax, Albacete.
Most notably he became known as co-founder of the School of Vallecas (together with sculptor Alberto Sánchez.
The quintessence of the large body of his work is perhaps the poetry of the Castilian landscape as defined by the Generation of '98.