4. A Civil War as a Car Crash (1936)

Alfonso Ponce de León (1906-1936) was a Falangist artist (design of Sindicato Español Universitario, SEU with the swan and chess table). His approach was very close to the New Objectivity (in German, Neue Sachlichkeit) school.

He was part of the “corte de los poetas” (Court of the Poets) that give birth to Falange Española -a very similar Fascist movement in Spain, but catholic, non antisemitic and with an strong engage with Tradition. His leader was José Antonio Primo de Rivera:

This self-portrait is called “Accident” (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) and we can see the artist after a car crash with his Hispano-Suiza on a “cuneta” (road ditch). It was exposed in Madrid at Exposición Nacional (Spring 1936).

Some weeks later explode Spanish Civil War and Ponce de León was tortured and killed in a “cuneta” (like many others) near Madrid by leftish “chekistas”:

Interpretation of the picture.
Francoism: country, religion, family