Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

(born on the 30th March, 1746) was a Spanish painter and copperplate engraver. He was born in Fuendetodos, Spain and lived later, primarily, in Madrid. Grown up in Zaragoza, he was given with thirteen to an artist's friend of his father in the apprenticeship.

In 1773 he married Josefa Bayeu (sister of Francisco Bayeu).

Francisco de Goyas later influence is significant, because his art deeply umstürzlerisch and was subjective, at a time were not prevailing as these settings. Francisco de Goyas Betonung on the foreground and faded out background already refers to Manet.

Francisco de Goya was a portrait painter of the monarchy and chronicler of the history who produced a row of eighty printings to which he entitled "Los Caprichos", the drawing what he called " the countless weaknesses and fatuities which are to be found in every civilised society and from the general prejudices and deceitful methods which have made custom, lack of experience, or self-interest usual. "

Francisco de Goya painted the Spanish royal family, including Karl IV of Spain and Ferdinand VII. His subjects go from happy parties for tapestry sketch cardboards to scenes of the war, the fight and the corpses. This evolution reflects the darkening of his character. Modern doctors suppose that the lead poisoned him in his pigments and also was the cause of that that Francisco de Goya was deaf from 1792. These " black pictures " already announce the future expressionism.

He withdrew in his "Quinta del Sordo" (" the villa of the deaf man "), after the French troops of Napoleon voucher-striking seized the power in Spain. Some of his pictures draw scenes of the frights of the war. Francisco de Goya died on the 15th April, 1828 in exile in Bordeaux.