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Beobide Museum

Julio Beobide was born in Zumaia in 1891 and died in 1969, having dedicated his life to sculpture without hardly ever leaving the town, except during his period of training.

We can include him within that generation of Basque sculptors, born at the end of the 19th century, the bulk of whose work was religious sculpture and realistic representations of local customs and manners.

These are the two references to which the work of Beobide returns, ploughing his own personal furrow, even after most sculptors stopped producing this type of work in the years after the civil war. Beobide chose to look for the essence of the form, leaving to one side the decorative aspects, of detail or appearance. He led himself, in the majority of the cases, to an increasing interest in the expressive qualities of materials and forms, as we can observe in the unfinished Christ held by the museum.

In the workplace of the sculptor, a pretty museum has been prepared, where we see sketches, works in several materials (especially wood) and the working tools of the sculptor.