The building:
"The Federico García Lorca Centre of Granada, conceived around the work and personality of the most influential author on contemporary art, opened its doors on July 2015.
The Centre, through its cultural activities, will offer to the public a selection of excellence in the context of contemporary creation in literatura, music, plastic arts, thought, cinema, theater, audiovisual arts, etc.
In the same way, intensive and extensive action will be carried aout in the field of pedagogy though initiation and teaching workshops organized in the various artistic disciplines, as well as activities to encourage reading and educational visits by primary and secondary schools students."
Person:
"Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, province of Granada, on June 5, 1898. His father, Don Federico García Rodríguez, was a landowner, and his mother, Doña Vicenta Lorca, a school teacher. He spent his early years in the rural environment of his small town in Granada, and studied at a school in Almeria. He studied Philosophy and Letters and Law at the University of Granada, where he met Don Manuel de Falla, who exerted a great influence on him, transmitting his love for folklore and the popular. In 1917 he wrote his first article on José Zorrilla, on his anniversary. In 1918 he published his first book Impressions and Landscapes, paid for by his father.
Before graduating, in 1919, he spent time in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. This period was fundamental, since in it he met Juan Ramón Jiménez and Machado, and made friends with Salvador Dalí, Buñuel, Pepín Bello, and all those who would later form part of the Generation of 27: Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, Gerardo Diego , Dámaso Alonso, Rafael Alberti... At this time he devoted himself with equal passion to poetry, drawing and theatre, and managed to premiere his first work in 1920: El hex de la butterfly, although it was a failure.
In 1921 he published Book of Poems and in 1923, the puppet comedies The Girl Who Waters the Basil and The Questioning Prince were staged. García Lorca's literary success came with the publication of Canciones and in parallel with the success of Mariana Pineda's performances in Madrid, for which Salvador Dalí painted the sets. In 1927 he exhibited his pictorial work at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona.
In 1928 he published the literary magazine Gallo, from which only two issues came out. In this period the literary maturity of the poet was conceived since at the same time he wrote Poema del cante jondo (although it was not published until 1931), with which he experienced for the first time what would be a characteristic feature of his poetry: identification with the popular and his subsequent cultured stylization, and which led to his full maturity with the Gypsy Ballads (1928), which was an immediate success.
In 1929 he went to New York with a scholarship from Columbia University, and there another of his fundamental books was conceived: Poet in New York, in which he fully opened up to the avant-garde. In 1930 he went to Havana.
In 1931 the Second Spanish Republic was established. Fernando de los Ríos was appointed Minister of Public Instruction, and García Lorca was named, under official patronage, co-director of La barraca, a university theater company that aimed to bring the classical theater of the Golden Age to the towns of Castile. in this period Bodas de Sangre, Yerma and Doña Rosita the single.
On March 8, 1933, he had a resounding success at the premiere of Bodas de sangre before the staff of Madrid's intelligentsia at the Teatro Beatriz. On October 13 of that same year, she landed in Buenos Aires to give lectures and attend the resounding success of Bodas de sangre, premiered by the Lola Membribes company, which reached one hundred performances. From Buenos Aires he moved to Montevideo. On March 27 he returned to Madrid.
In February 1936 he participated in political acts in favor of the Popular Front. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1936 he began the exile of the majority of Spanish intellectuals, Colombia and Mexico offered him political exile but the poet refused and went to his summer home. He had declared: “I am an integral Spaniard and it would be impossible for me to live outside my geographical limits; but I hate the one who is Spanish for being Spanish nothing more, I am everyone's brother and I execrate the man who sacrifices himself for a nationalist, abstract idea, for the sole fact that he loves his country with a blindfold on his eyes. The good Chinese is closer to me than the bad Spanish. I sing to Spain and I feel it to the core, but before this I am a man of the world and a brother to all. Of course I do not believe in political borders.
Following an anonymous complaint, on August 16, 1936, he was arrested at the home of his friend, the poet Luis Rosales. The execution order was given by the civil governor of Granada, José Valdés Guzmán. Federico García Lorca was assassinated on the road from Víznar to Alfacar and his body is still buried in an anonymous mass grave along with the bodies of two banderilleros and a national teacher who were executed with him."
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