Francisco Riba Rovira

Who is Francisco Riba Rovira?

Francisco Riba-Rovira also known as Francesc, was a Catalan and a Spanish painter.

He worked to pay for his Beaux-Arts studies in Barcelona. He succeeded in this for only one or two months before the start of the Spanish Civil War. He fought against the rebellion led by Francisco Franco against the established Government of the Second Spanish Republic. After the war he was forced into exile in France, first in Perpignan or near to be in a Camp as prisoner on a beach.

The Second World War began a few months later. In Gertrude Stein's exhibition preface, it notes that Riba Rovira was arrested by the Gestapo. And the Nazi soldiers who kept him prisoner were Netherlands Nazi SS. After an attempted escape for the second time he succeeded to escape from this camp which was near Vannes in French Britain. He chose the day it was raining a lot for impeach the dogs feeling after him. And for that he had to fight against one Nazi SS Dutch soldier. He did it. After the war he talked about, that he learned what a few days after he escapes from the camp, a train was made by the Nazis for red Spanish republican soldiers for expedition to Mathausen. And very few people know that this Mathausen camp was harder than Dachau and even Buchenwald Dora just below Auschwitz for concentration camp part. Mathausen was the only one concentration camp put in the category number 3. And even he escaped from that, anybody can understand he lost about ten years with the wars. The best years you have in your life when it takes off good time when you are near thirty years in a man life.