Joaquín Capa

(Santander, 1941)

Author's artworks
20th-21st Century Spanish

At a very early age, this engraver and painter moved from his hometown of Santander to Madrid to enrol at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he trained under masters like Juan Barjola (1919-2004) and Antonio López (1936).

He used his time in Paris between 1972 and 1976 to unravel the mysteries of engraving. Back in Madrid he continued exploring this discipline in the studio of Dimitri Papageorgiu (1928). He won a scholarship from Fundación Juan March to attend the prestigious
run by Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988).

Capa exhibited his works in Holland, Romania and India—in the 1980s he was a teacher at the University of Baroda—and also in New York and Lisbon.