Manuel Bartolomé Cossío
Spanish professor (1857-1935) · Spain · On the map · Academics · Died at 78
Manuel Bartolomé Cossío was a Spanish art historian and Krausist teacher. Born in Haro, La Rioja, he entered the Institución Libre de Enseñanza, where he was the godson and favourite pupil of Francisco Giner de los Ríos as well as his inseparable companion and successor. He also wrote a monumental study of El Greco.
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Cossío in 1920.
Quinta San Victorio (Bergondo, La Coruña).
Cossío en 1931.
Tombs de Julián Sanz del Río, Manuel Bartolomé Cossío, Francisco Giner de los Ríos, Alberto Jiménez Fraud, Fernando de Castro and Gumersindo de Azcárate in the civil cemetery of Madrid.
Joaquín Sorolla, Portrait of Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (signed and dated by the painter in 1908). Sorolla included in the sober three-quarter portrait a small reproduction of El Greco's painting The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest.About this person
He was director of the Museo Pedagógico Nacional and president of the Misiones Pedagógicas, becoming "the most eminent figure in Spanish pedagogy in the period 1882 to 1935", two years after his death. He died at Collado Mediano in Madrid.
