Ángel Atienza Landeta (born 16 March 1931) is a Spanish

Spain

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 artist and footballer

Football (soccer)

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 who played for Real Madrid

Real Madrid

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 and was part of their European Cup

UEFA Champions League

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 victories in 1956 and 1958

European Cup 1957-58

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Exhibitions

Permanent works on Germany, Belgium and Switzerland Art Gallerie

• 1964 Exhibitions room Daily Town (Madrid, Spain)
• 1972 Rottembourg Art Gallery (Madrid, Spain)
• 1972 Exhibitions room Hotel Hilton (Brussels, Belgium)

1973 Lambert Monet Art Gallery (Geneva, Switzerland)
1975 Rottembourg Art Gallery, group exhibition (Madrid, Spain)
1975 La Coruña exhibition room (Spain)
2003 SALA BARNA Art Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
2003 MAC 21 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY Art Fair (Marbella, Spain)
2003 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE Art Fair (Frankfurt, Germany)
2004 SALA SOROLLA Art Gallery (Terrassa, Spain)
2004 SALA BARNA Art Gallery, group exhibitions (Barcelona, Spain)
2004 FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE Art Fair (Frankfurt, Germany)
2004 Museum of the Americas (Miami, United States). Work in the permanent collection of the Museum. Member of Honor of the Museum of the Americas.
2005 /2006 Torreón Fortea exhibition room. “The Dream’s Design”. Zaragoza City Council (Zaragoza, Spain)
2006 SALA BARNA Art Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
2006 HOLLAND Art Fair (Den Haag, Holland)
2007 SALA BARNA Art Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
2008 SALA ESART Art Gallery, Winter Showroom (Barcelona, Spain)
2008 SALA PIA ALMOINA Art Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)

Awards

Caja de Ahorros de Málaga National contest. For the ceramic murals of the facade in Edificio Central, 1500 m²
Royal International Show. Acquisition by the Ingles Government of an iron (door of the Spanish Pavilion)
Honorary plaque of San Juan Bosco Church in Los Teques, Venezuela (Venezuela)
Juan Fernandez of Leon Distinction (Guanare-Venezuela)
Original painting, SALA ESART Art Galer, Winter Showroom (Barcelona, Spain

Biography

1931 Born March 16, 1931 in Madrid, Spain.
1954 He separated from his artistic work to dedicate to professional sport, playing with the Real Madrid football team. However, he participated in diverse group exhibitions and he stayed close to the artistic world as a complementary activity.
1958 During a travel around Central Europe, he discovered the color glass fitted in concrete as an artistic expression.
In these days, influenced by the entire artistic tendency he started to collaborate with different artists. He left the professional sport and began the accomplishment of mosaic murals and stained glasses.
1964 Started to create ceramic murals. His first artistic work was in the Hotel Carlton Rioja (Logroño, Spain), and constituted the discovering of his artistic possibilities.
1976 Moved his residence to Venezuela, where incorporated new materials to his artistic expression, creating iron, bronze and aluminum murals. He participated directly in different architectonic projects, obtaining a perfect harmony between his works and the surroundings.
2001 Moved his residence to Spain, where he is working in different paintins, participating in different exhibitions and showrooms.

External links

• Profile at Futbol Database