Alejo fernandez He was born in 1475, in Germany.
Son of Juana Garrido Y Leonisio (Dionisio) Garrido it is usually argued about his true nationality, between Spain or Germany, but the highest percentage of beliefs assures that he is German.
Although since he was a child, together with his family, he has moved to Córdoba, there it is said that his first job has been carried out.
It has been in the case of Christ of the Column with Saint Peter and Donors or the Triptych of the sacramentThere, the artist has fused the end of the Gothic style with the advent of the Renaissance.
When the year 1508 arrived, when he settled in Seville, Alejo begins his work in the realization of paintings for the main altarpiece of the Cathedral, being his duty a school for a multitude of new painters.
This man has stood out since his first job, due to the lines, his own style.
Later, around the year 1520, Alejo He has painted his masterpiece, such as the altarpiece in the chapel of Master Rodrigo, which has received rave reviews.
For the Cathedral of Sevilla, Fernandez has painted, among other works, “The birth of the Virgin” Y “The Adoration of the Kings”, although among his best-known paintings are “The Virgin of the Rose of the church of Santa Ana”, “Seville”, Y “The Virgin of the navigators”, of the Reales Alcázares.
This man, in the year 1509, begins to take orders for which he really begins to have continuous work, he has begun to receive the orders of two altarpieces the Carthusians of Santa Maria of the Caves, one of the neighbor of Antequera, Martin Alonso, and others were soon to follow.
In regards to your love life, Alejo has married Maria Fernandez, daughter of Pedro Fernandez, one of the main painters of Córdoba, before 1497.
She has been the companion of his life for more than twenty years, and the mother of his five children, three of them boys, of whom Sebastian Alejo He chose the profession of painter as well and, without a doubt, he was one of his main collaborators.
And that was how their savings grew, and their base to support themselves, although Alejo Fernandez He was an artist who knew how to manage himself, this man was orderly and industrious, he carefully kept his book of income and expenses, credits and debts, in which his son sat some items Sebastian and one of his servants.
This is how he has traveled ten years of uninterrupted economic fortunes, with material prosperity, until the bad news and events arrive, such is so that in 1523 he lost his wife, and it did not take long for his youngest son, still a child, to follow him to the grave. .
And it is in these moments that he decides to move to San Pedro, and there the problems continue for a while, until the waters seem to calm down.
In the year 1526, the work of Alejo Fernandez, who does it first in the arches erected by the city to receive Caesar, and undoubtedly has an important part in the active work carried out in the main chapel of the cathedral to complete its altarpiece, whose design was given years before.
Then in the year 1539, his son married Sebastian, but by a horrible misfortune, Alejo he sees him die, newly married and in full youth.
That is how Fernandez, seriously ill, in 1542, he made his new testament, and although he managed to recover, he relapsed in February of the following year, and finally said goodbye in September 1545.