The Córdoban sculptor and artist Aurelio Teno, several of whose works are displayed in Nerja, has died at his home in El Pedrique, Córdoba.
Aurelio Teno was born in 1927 in Las Minas del Soldado in Villanueva del Duque. He worked as an apprentice to the sculptor Amadeo Ruiz Olmos and later in a silversmiths in the city.
In 1939 he joined the School of Arts and Crafts in Córdoba to study drawing and painting and remained there until 1943. In 1950 he moved to Madrid and worked as a goldsmith before moving to Paris to further his art studies.
Aurelio Teno returned to Madrid in 1965 to continue what had been a successful career. In 1976 he achieved international acclaim for a monumental sculpture of Don Quijote which is displayed in front of the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C.