Alfonso Ponce de León

{{short description|Spanish painter}}

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| image = Alfonso Ponce de León Cabello.jpg

| birth_name = Alfonso Ponce de León y Cabello

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1906|9|10}}

| birth_place = Málaga, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1936|9|29|1906|9|10}}

| death_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_cause = Execution by firing squad

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| occupation = {{Hlist|Painter|propagandist}}

| education = Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

| movement = Magical realism

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| party = Falange Española de las JONS

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Alfonso Ponce de León y Cabello (10 September 1906 – 29 September 1936) was a Spanish painter and propagandist. He was the son of jurist {{ill|Juan Ponce de León y Encina|es}}. He was also associated with Federico García Lorca's theater group, La Barraca as a scene painter.{{cite book |last= Raychaudhuri|first= Anindya |date= 2013 |title= The Spanish Civil War - Exhuming a Buried Past|url= |location= |publisher= University of Wales Press|page= |isbn= |author-link= }} In 2001 the Reina Sofía curated a retrospective exhibition of his work.{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/05/30/cultura/991173610_850215.html|title=Una docena de cuadros sacan del olvido a Alfonso Ponce de León|newspaper=El País|date=29 May 2001}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/alfonso-ponce-leon-1906-1936|title = Alfonso Ponce de León (1906 - 1936) | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía}} He was married to fellow painter {{ill|Margarita Manso|es}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/alfonso-ponce-leon-1906-1936|title = Alfonso Ponce de León (1906 - 1936) | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía}} A member of Falange (helming the organization's propaganda apparatus){{Cite web|url=https://www.diariosur.es/culturas/falangista-malagueno-rescatado-20171209184630-nt.html|website=Diario Sur|publisher=Grupo Vocento|date=10 December 2017|first=Antonio Javier|last=López|title=El falangista malagueño 'rescatado' por Carmena}} since circa 1935,{{Cite journal|url=http://www.unedtalavera.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Alcalibe-2004-paginas-295-299-uned-talavera.pdf|journal=Alcalibe|page=299|first=Miguel|last=Argaya Roca|title=Una generación truncada}} he was arrested and executed by Republican paramilitaries in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.{{Cite news|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/05/30/cultura/991173610_850215.html|title=Una docena de cuadros sacan del olvido a Alfonso Ponce de León|newspaper=El País|date=29 May 2001}} His most famous work, Autorretrato (accidente) is housed in the Reina Sofia's permanent collection.

File:1936 Alfonso Ponce de Leon Self-Portrait anagoria.JPG