The Ferrer-Dalmau Art and History Foundation (FFD), better known as the Ferrer-Dalmau Foundation, is a Spanish non-profit foundation founded on June 30, 2021[1][2][3] by the Spanish painter and academic[4]Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, known as the Painter of Battles.[5] Its purpose is the dissemination, training and enhancement of the historical, artistic and cultural resources of Spain by carrying out activities such as workshops, exhibitions, forums, etc.[6] To fulfill this task, different arts are used, such as painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, comics, music or cinema, among others.
According to its founder, Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto, the FFD was created to be able to cover university teaching,[7][8] occupational training[9] and cultural dissemination of Spain's[10] historical legacy in a single project based mainly on two models:
The tradition of European Painting Schools: craft workshops that were grouped in streets and neighborhoods whose knowledge was preserved and transmitted directly between these workshops between generations. The result was a large collection of illustrations, prints, engravings, bindings, etc. of great influence between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the 18th century there was a great crisis caused by enlightened reformism, but in the 19th century in Spain a rise of History Painting as a specific genre was generated, touching on themes such as the Spanish Empire, the War of Independence, etc. The objective of the FFD is to try to recover that artisanal and didactic spirit of painting focused on History.
The Grekóv Workshop:[11] created in the Soviet Union to bring together painters and sculptors of battles around the Russian painter Grekóv. The FFD wants to follow these steps by maintaining craftsmanship and various techniques to use them in new artistic creations
Both models form the Ferrer-Dalmau Workshop of Historical Artists of Painting, Sculpture and History, which focuses on the training of new creators, researchers and restorers of this type of art.
Board of trustees
The board of trustees of the Ferrer-Dalmau Foundation currently consists of 20 trustees, among which are:[12][13]
One of the main artistic projects of the FFD is the construction of a monument to the Tercios in Madrid.[25][26] The artistic composition has been elaborated by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau and the historical advice of experts, the sculptor Salvador Amaya has the objective of making a sculptural group, of classical inspiration, on a stone pedestal in which some of the most representative figures of those soldiers of the Spanish Golden Age: an arquebusier, a pikeman, a flag bearer and their captain. Alongside them will walk a dog, a symbol of loyalty and dedication until the end. The monument will be 2.60 meters high and will be made of lost-wax cast bronze.
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