Antonio León Ortega

He elaborated on the religious works from a previous sketch drawn on mud and he sculpted them directly onto the wood with the help of the gouge and the mallet.

He created other important religious and civil works in Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Caceres, Salamanca, Pontevedra, Madrid, Belgium, United States, etc., as well as many others in smaller sizes, belonging to private collections in America and in Spain.

At the same time he was an educator; he taught drawing and modelling classes in his workshop, in the Diocesan seminary and where today is the León Ortega School of Arts.

As sculptor, he mostly gave himself up to creating images, not only because this artistic field had always attracted him, but also because he was motivated by intimate religious convictions, that, connected to his social sensibility, place him into the area of the most involved Christianity.

His first religious works had a baroque touch, but then he found a very personal style: he chose a lighter form of lines and decorations and he tried to find a fusion between the Castillian and Andalucian imagery to get the essence of the sculpture only in its minimalism.

He created only small size works because they needed just a little physical effort as, for example, his last masterpiece, the Busto de Madame Cazenave.

Descendimiento of Huelva
Platero. Museum J.R. Jiménez (Moguer)
Cristo del Perdón (Huelva)
Pasión of Ayamonte
Ángel de la Oración en el Huerto (Huelva)
Cristo de la Sangre de Huelva
Yacente (Huelva)
Cristo de las Aguas (Ayamonte)
Jesús de las Tres Caídas (Huelva) en el taller de San Cristobal, 1945.