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Alejandro Obregn Ross was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.

Obregn was born in Barcelona, Spain, the son of a Colombian father and a Catalan mother. The Obregn family owned a textile factory in Barranquilla, Colombia. Most of his childhood was spent in Barranquilla and Liverpool, England. After returning to Barranquilla, he decided to become an artist. He studied fine arts in Boston for a year in 1939, then returned to Barcelona to serve as Vice Consul of Colombia for four years. He married Ilva RaschIsla, the daughter of poet Miguel RaschIsla, during his time in Spain. In 1948, he became Director of the School of Fine Arts in Santaf de Bogot, where he was influenced by the fresco style of artists Pedro Nel Gmez and Santiago Martinez Delgado. He left the School of Fine Arts and moved to France with his second wife, Sonia Osorio he later married his third wife, English painter Freda Sargent. After traveling around Europe, he returned to Barranquilla in 1955. Obregn died on April 11, 1992, succumbing to a brain tumor. He lived and worked exclusiv

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