José Moreno Villa

José Moreno Villa ( born February 16, 1887 in Malaga, † April 25, 1955 in Mexico) was a Spanish poet, translator, essayist, artist, archivist and high school teachers. He belonged to the group Generación del 27

Life

After completing his education in Malaga Villa initially studied chemistry in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1910 he returned to Malaga and then lived as a translator in Madrid, where he came into contact with Ortega y Gasset, Enrique de Mesa, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Enrique Díez Canedo, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Pío Baroja. 1916 - 1921 he worked in the publishing house Editorial Calleja and published in national magazines. Villa has translated the writings of Heinrich Wölfflin, as a painter he was close to Surrealism.

He lived almost 20 years in the acting also as a cultural Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. In the Second Spanish Republic Villa was appointed palace archivist of the Royal Castle and wrote much in El Sol.

With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Villa moved to Valencia, then to the United States, and finally to Mexico.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• Garba (1913 )
• El pasajero (1914 )
• Lucha de Pena y Alegría y su Transfiguración (1915 )
• Evoluciones. Cuentos, Caprichos, Bestiario, epitaphios y Obras paralelas (1918 )
• Colección. POESIAS (1924 )
• Jacinta la Pelirroja. Poema en poemas y dibujos (1929 )
• Caramba (1931 )
• Puentes que no acaban. Poemas (1933 )
• Salón sin muros (1936 )
• Puerta severa (1941 )
• La noche del Verbo (1942 )
• Voz en vuelo a su cuna ( Avance de ese libro INEDITO ) Ed. Ángel Caffarena search (1961 )
• Voz en vuelo a su cuna prologue León Felipe, Juan epilog Rejano (1961 )
• POESIAS completas Ed. Juan Pérez de Ayala (1998)
• La música que llevaba. Antología poética Ed. Juan Cano Ballesta (2010)

Prose

• Velázquez (1920 )
• Patrañas ( 1921)
• Dibujos del Instituto Jovellanos (1926 )
• Pruebas de Nueva York ( 1927)
• Locos, enanos, negros y niños palaciegos (1939 )
• Cornucopia de México (1940 )
• Doce manos mexicanas, datos para la historia literaria (1941 )
• La escultura colonial mexicana (1941 )
• Vida en claro, Autobiografia (1944 )
• Leyendo a San Juan de la Cruz, Garcilaso, Fr Luis de León, Becquer, etc (1944 )
• Probetería y locura (1945 )
• Lo que Sabia mi loro (1945 )
• Lo mexicano en las artes Plásticas (1948 )
• Los autores como actores (1951 )
• Análisis de los poemas de Picasso ( 1996)
• José Moreno Villa escribe artículos (1906-1937) ed Carolina Caballero Galán (1999)
• Temas de arte ed Humberto Huergo (2001)
• Ideografías de José Moreno Villa ( 2007)