- José Bello
José "Pepín" Bello Lasierra (
13 May 1904 –11 January 2008 ) was a Spanish intellectual andwriter .Bello, born in
Huesca ,Aragon , was the son of engineer Severino Poëysuan Bello. His parents were friends of such Spanish intellectuals asJoaquin Costa ,Santiago Ramón y Cajal , andFrancisco Giner de los Rios . At the age of eleven, he participated in the Madrid artist promotion "Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid" where he metSalvador Dalí ,Luis Buñuel ,Federico García Lorca , andRafael Alberti .Bello, who studied medicine, was a profound influence on his creative contemporaries. Even though some of his paintings, which he called "Artists Without Deeds", were published, he was known mainly as the organizer of art events. He also managed a hydropower plant in the province of Huesca, operated a tannery in
Burgos , and owned a drive-in theatre in Madrid. None of these business ventures, however, was ultimately successful.Bello died in his sleep in
Madrid at the age of 103. He was regarded as the last survivor of the "Generation of '27 " and was the only member to survive into the 21st Century.External links
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* [http://www.el-mundo.es/magazine/m84/textos/bello1.html Biography of José Bello] (Spanish)
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/11/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Obit-Pepin-Bello.php Obituary at the "International Herald Tribune"]
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