(Toledo, Spain, 1895 – Moscow URSS, 1962)
He spent his childhood and youth in various occupations. Around 1922-23 he met Uruguayan painter Rafael Barradas in Madrid, who introduced him to modern art and encouraged him to take part in the “Exhibition of Iberian Artists” in 1925. The works he submitted to that exhibition earned him a pension from the Toledo authorities, which enabled him to fully devote to sculpture. Together with Benjamín Palencia, he founded the “Vallecas School” with the aim of promoting national art. In the middle of the Civil War, in 1937, he went to Paris to create, in the Spanish pavilion of the International Exhibition, his gigantic sculpture (12 m high) entitled “The Spanish people have a road that leads to a star”. His name appeared there together with those of the architect José Luis Sert, Picasso, Julio González, and Joan Miró. Shortly afterwards he returned to Valencia, leaving for Moscow as a drawing teacher in the schools where the evacuated Spanish children were taught. “He left a trail of admiration and human warmth in those who knew him. But the balance of his work (because it is missing or distant) must remain, to a certain extent, in abeyance, although the references and reproductions allow us to affirm that Alberto was one of the greatest creators of Spanish modern art” (V. Aguilera Cerni).