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Manuel de la Fuente was a Spanish artist, born in Cadiz on 22 April 1932. He studied sculpture, drawing and art history at the School of Arts and Crafts of Cadiz, later achieving the rank of Professor of Drawing at the Higher School of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville, between 1950 and 1956. Read the full biography

Manuel de la Fuente was a Spanish artist, born in Cadiz on 22 April 1932. He studied sculpture, drawing and art history at the School of Arts and Crafts of Cadiz, later achieving the rank of Professor of Drawing at the Higher School of Fine Arts Santa Isabel de Hungría, Seville, between 1950 and 1956. In 1957 he traveled through France and Italy, before moving to Venezuela in 1959, settling in Mérida, in whose state he lived and worked throughout the life.
Manuel de la Fuente created bronze busts of Mérida's most important men of letters for the Parque de los Escritores, commissioned by the regional executive. He taught drawing and sculpture at the Antonio Esteban Frías School and the Experimental Art Center of the Universidad de Los Andes, and graphic expression and design at the Faculty of Architecture of the same university. Among his most famous works is La virgen de la Paz (mirador-sculpture), built in Trujillo, state of Trujillo. He started a doctorate in Art at the University of Cadiz. He held numerous solo exhibitions including the one at the Museum of Fine Arts of Cadiz in 1957, at the Corpoandes Gallery in Mérida in 1968, at the GAN in 1977, at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington DC in 1978, at the La Gallery Otra Banda of Mérida in 1978, at the Arte Oggi Gallery in 1988 and at the Acquavella Gallery in 1994. Manuel de la Fuente has also received numerous awards and recognitions, including the First Prize for Sculpture at the Autumn Exhibition of Seville, Spain , from 1957; the honorable mention at the Salon of Plastic Arts in Venezuela in 1974; and second prize at the 1st Sculpture Biennial of the Francisco Narváez Museum, Porlamar, in 1982.
Among its public monuments are "La virgen de la Paz"; «The crazy light Caraballo», «Ceratafio de Don Andrés Bello» and the «Pedestre Monumental del Libertador “Simón Bolívar”». The sculptor is also the creator of a series known as "Crowds", including: "Coca-Cola", 1980; "The Sardine Can", 1983; and «Transmutation of a culture», 1994.
He died in Mérida on 4 March 2010.