Eduardo Chillida Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts 1987

The sculptor Eduardo Chillida (San Sebastián, España 1924 - 2002) was one of the most outstanding figures of the Spanish visual arts scene. After abandoning his studies in Architecture, he moved to France to devote himself to sculpture, first living in Paris and later in Villenes. At the age of 26, he returned to the Basque Country and settled in Hernani, where he made his first work in iron and learned the secrets of the forge and handling the bellows from the village blacksmith.