19th-20th Century Spanish

Born in 1872 in Valencia, where his family, originally from Germany, had settled in 1865. Ramón Stolz began his training when he enrolled at the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia, where he was a disciple of Ignacio Pinazo (1849-1916), among other painters.

In 1883 he furthered his studies at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Madrid, where he remained until 1892. He began painting landscapes, which he regularly submitted to the in Madrid, where he obtained several distinctions, including third class medals won in 1892 and in 1897.

In the late 1890s he travelled throughout France, Germany, Switzerland and England and in 1899 he settled temporarily in Paris. There he began to specialise in genre scenes, with paintings of his native land painted in a Costumbrista language, and he adopted a précieux style close to that of Bernardo Ferrándiz (1835-1885).

Back in Spain he settled in Valencia and returned to landscape painting, although now using a technique closer to the Mediterranean-rooted school of luminist realism. In 1903, his son Ramón Alberto Stolz Viciano (1903-1958), who would also go on to become an outstanding painter, was born.

In 1909 he was a member of the organising committee of the Valencian Regional Exhibition, at which he won a Gold Medal. He was later awarded a prize at successive iterations of the Exhibition of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Valencia, in 1911 and 1912.

He died in Valencia in 1924 at the age of fifty-two.