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Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domnguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bcquer, was a Spanish postromanticist poet and writer , also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented in drawing. Today he is considered one of the most important figures in Spanish literature, and is considered by some as the most read writer after Cervantes. He adopted the alias of Bcquer as his brother Valeriano Bcquer, a painter, had done earlier. He was associated with the postromanticism movement and wrote while realism was enjoying success in Spain. He was moderately well known during his life, but it was after his death that most of his works were published. His best known works are the Rhymes and the Legends, usually published together as Rimas y leyendas. These poems and tales are essential to the study of Spanish literature and common reading for highschool students in Spanishspeaking countries.

Gustavo Adolfo Bcquer was born in 1836 with the last name of Domnguez Bastida, but he chose his Flemish fathers second last name of Bcquer, as the family was known around town. His father, Jos Domnguez Bcquer, who descended from an originallyFlemish family that was well respected in Seville, was a painter of relatively good repute in his native town. His paintings were sought after, particularly among tourists visiting the area. Jos had a great talent, and this greatly influenced young Gustavo, who showed a love for painting and an innate ability for drawing and sketching at an early age. He was very talented, and continued drawing throughout his life, though it was never his main focus.

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