Agustín González Alonso, known as Agustín Redondela, trained with his father, the painter and set designer José González Redondela, from whom he took his soubriquet. After the Spanish Civil War, he studied at the School of Arts and Crafts, where his teacher was the landscape artist José Ordóñez. At that time, he came into contact with the artists of the Madrid School, in which his work (comprising mainly landscapes) has also been included.  In 1947 the Academy of Art Criticism set up by Eugenio d’Ors selected him for an exhibition at the Salón de los Once venue and in 1954 he obtained a grant from the Catherwood Foundation in Philadelphia.

His work is based on traditional figurative art painted from nature, and mainly comprises views of towns and cities around Spain. His style evolved from a Fauvist approach in the 1950s and 1960s, with smooth brush-strokes depicting urban scenes and interiors, to a more schematic use of forms and a great reduction in his range of faded colours in the 1970s, when he began to integrate the figures and buildings in his paintings into the natural elements that surrounded them, giving his work great balance and calmness. He also did significant work as an illustrator on the edition of Viaje a la Alcarria by Camilo José Cela published by Ediciones Rembrandt in 1978.

Redondela obtained a Third Place medal at the 1948 National Fine Arts Exhibition and a First Place medal at the 1957 edition. He also won the National Painting Award in 1953 and the González de la Peña Award from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in 1996. In 1998 the first, and so far only, anthology of his work was staged at the La Villa Cultural Centre in Madrid.

Roberto Díaz