S O L E R 



JOSE M. SOLER FERNANDEZ 



Teacher of art. 



Jose M. Soler Fernandez was born 

 in Villaclara, Cuba, in the year 1873. 

 When he was twenty he entered the School 

 of Painting and Sculpture of Madrid where 

 he continued five years, and won gold 

 medals for excellence in his studies and 

 honorable mention in the Exposition of 

 Fine Arts of Madrid in 1896. From 1901 

 to 1904 he studied in the University of Ha- 

 vana where he obtained the degrees of 

 Bachelor and of Doctor in Pedagogy (1904). 

 In the same year he won the silver medal 

 for a text-book on the subject of art at the 

 Exposition held in St. Louis. 



Meantime he had entered upon his 

 career as teacher of art. In 1901 he was 

 Professor of Drawing in the Summer 

 Schools at Cienfuegos; in 1902 in those of 



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