José Lázaro Galdiano

In 1889, he co-founded the review España Moderna with Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and a number of leading Spanish critics.

[1] In 1903, he married the glamorous Argentine Paula Florido (d. 1931) who shared his passion for art and advised him on many of his major acquisitions.

She accompanied him on his frequent travels across Europe, Africa and North and South America seeking art objects.

He spent the years of the Spanish Civil War in exile, first in Paris and later New York, where he continued to collect art works.

Since Lázaro's death his home in Calle Serrano, a fashionable street in Madrid, has been adapted to serve as a museum to house his collections.