In 2015 it will be a hundred years since the death of Francisco Giner de los Ríos, “the first modern Spaniard” in the words of the English Hispanist John Brande Trend. Hailed as the educator par excellence of contemporary Spain, his intellectual leadership had a decisive influence on shaping the project for modernising the country that was spearheaded by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE) during the last third of the 1800s and early 1900s.
AC/E and the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos are coproducing this exhibition, which surveys the personal career of Giner de los Ríos and the history of his main accomplishment, the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Through original documents such as photographs, letters, books, journals and paintings, among other art objects, it brings together the many expressions of Giner de los Ríos’s thinking, which was disseminated both through his writings and in the development of the various projects it underpinned. It analyses his relationship with his Krausist masters, his main collaborators and students, and intellectuals and artists linked to some degree with the institutionist circles, as well as with other people of his day who played a prominent role in politics, science, creation or education in both Spain and other European countries
AC/E and the Fundación Francisco Giner de los Ríos are coproducing this exhibition, which surveys the personal career of Giner de los Ríos and the history of his main accomplishment, the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Through original documents such as photographs, letters, books, journals and paintings, among other art objects, it brings together the many expressions of Giner de los Ríos’s thinking, which was disseminated both through his writings and in the development of the various projects it underpinned. It analyses his relationship with his Krausist masters, his main collaborators and students, and intellectuals and artists linked to some degree with the institutionist circles, as well as with other people of his day who played a prominent role in politics, science, creation or education in both Spain and other European countries
