Carmen Jiménez

Carmen Jiménez studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Training under Enrique Pérez Comendador is recorded. The recorded working language is Spanish. Employment is recorded with University of Seville and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary.

• Name — Carmen Jiménez • Birth Name — Carmen Jiménez Serrano • Born — 21 September 1920 • Birthplace — La Zubia, Spain • Died — 19 October 2016 • Place of death — Seville, Spain • Occupation — Painter, sculptor, professor • Employer — * Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría • University of Seville • Spouse — Antonio Cano Correa • Awards — * National Sculpture Award (1951) • Gold Medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts (1952, 1958) • Education — Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

• Illustration — La Danza (1975) at the University of Granada Carmen Jiménez was born in La Zubia on 21 September 1920. She began her artistic studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Granada shortly after the Civil War ended in 1939. Although she initially favored embroidery studies, contact with other students at the school such as painter Miguel Pérez Aguilera and sculptor Nicolás Prados López, who would go on to study fine arts in Madrid, inclined her to prepare her application to the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. In the meantime she worked at a sculpture workshop, creating religious images. She joined the Madrid school for the academic year 1940–41, thanks to her income and a scholarship from the city council of La Zubia. There she studied painting and discovered, with Enrique Pérez Comendador, her inclination for sculpture. In 1944 she married the sculptor Antonio Cano Correa (1909–2009). When he won the position of chair at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría of Seville, she moved with him to the Andalusian city and began to work as an assistant to the Modeling and Composition chair at the same school. In 1984 she would attain the chair herself – the first woman to do so – and continued in the role when the Fine Arts school was brought under the University of Seville. She died in Seville on 19 October 2016 at age 96.

She was employed by University of Seville and Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary. She belonged to Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias.