Eugenio d'Ors

Born in Barcelona in 1882, Eugeni d'Ors initiated himself in the modernist literary environments.

He collaborated from 1906 on in La Veu de Catalunya and was a member of Catalan Noucentisme.

Returning from France, he joined the Falange Española de las JONS in 1937.

[1] In 1938, during Spanish Civil War he was the General Director on Fine Arts in the Francoist provisional government in Burgos.

A "hard-line fascist," he had both leftist and rightist friends among intellectuals and politicians, and got prisoners from the Second Spanish Republic released from Franco-era concentration camps.