Enrique Pérez Comendador (Hervás, Cáceres, November 17, 1900 - Madrid, March 2, 1981), Spanish sculptor of the Sevillian School of sculpture. In 1920, he settled in Madrid, where he opened a workshop and became imbued with the sculptural spirit of artists such as Blay Fábregas and José Capuz. In 1934, pensioned march to Rome, which together with his frequent trips to Greece and Egypt, country in which he came to practice teaching, ends up shaping the cosmopolitan aesthetic influences that emanate from his style. He obtained the chair of modeling in 1941, the status of academic in 1955 and, throughout his career, received numerous awards, such as the National Sculpture in 1934. He died in 1981. The art of Enrique Pérez Comendador stands out for the conscientious physiognomic and expressive study of his works, the mastery in the drawing and the composition of the piece and, as we have pointed out above, the taste for the proper ways of classical antiquity. Among his creations, powerful portraits stand out, such as those made by Vera Von Rychter (1937), preserved in the Seville Museum of Fine Arts, or Mimi Roy (in the photograph), with which he obtained the Third Medal of the National Exhibition of the year 1924 and that at the moment is in the Provincial Museum of Beautiful Arts, of Badajoz. It also stood out with its civil monuments, scattered throughout numerous cities throughout the world, in the case of the one dedicated to Pedro de Valdivia (1962), in Santiago de Chile, or the sepulchral lauda of Alonso de Ercilla for the Toledo municipality of Ocaña ( 1959-1961). undefined

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