Daniel Zuloaga
The great innovator of ceramics in Spain was born in Madrid in 1852 and died in Segovia in 1921. Trained in the Parisian schools with the great French artists, he was called by Alfonso XII to modernize the Royal Factory of La Moncloa, from where he would catapult fame as a ceramist. In 1883 he settled in Segovia and began working in the La Segoviana faience factory, actively participating in the cultural life of the city, permanently establishing his workshop there after a visit to the Basque Country. His extensive and renowned ceramic work can be visited in various parts of Spain and Europe. A bust of the artist made by Emiliano Barral can be visited next to what was his home and large workshop in the church of San Juan de los Caballeros, now converted into the essential Zuloaga Museum.
