# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/menchu-gal
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:02:03.069Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/menchu-gal"
name: "Menchu Gal"
slug: "menchu-gal"
description: "Carmen Gal Orendain, better known as Menchu Gal, was a Spanish painter from the Basque Country. Her work in landscapes and portraits made her famous with her personal attraction to vivid colors. In 1959, she became the first woman to be awarded Spain's National Painting Prize."
tagline: "Spanish painter (1919–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mentxu_Gal_-_Dani_Blanco.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1919-01-07"
deathDate: "2008-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.93
  momentum:             12.46621621621621
  historical:           7.06048
  currentAttention:     69.25675675675674
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "مينتشو جال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menchu_Gal"
    title: "Menchu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentxu_Gal"
    title: "Mentxu Gal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3854624"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump