Francisco Asorey | |
Birth Name: | Francisco Asorey González |
Birth Date: | 4 March 1889 |
Birth Place: | Cambados, Spain |
Death Place: | Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Francisco Asorey González (4 March 1889 – 2 July 1961) was a Spanish sculptor. Born in Cambados, Galicia, he was one of the most important Spanish sculptors of the early 20th century. He studied and began work as a religious sculptor in Sarrià, Barcelona, and continued in Barakaldo, Basque Country. He lived and worked in Madrid from 1909 to 1918; then in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, until his death in 1961.