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ACTIVITY
Alfredo Piris is a teacher in the subjects of design, painting and creation of stained glass, specialist technician in specific treatments such as enamelling and vitrification, specialist technician in painting techniques with grisaille, nitrates and enamels, and specialist technician in the conservation, restoration and consolidation… of historic stained glass windows, both medieval and contemporary.
He is also the founder and leading director of the society named Sociedad Maestros Vidrieros Montañeses S. L., founder and leading director of the Escuela de vidrieras artísticas de Pámanes and founder and leading director of the Estudios Alfredo Piris.
His vast professional trajectory is supported by an intense artistic activity which is reflected in his works since the year 1974 until today.
TRAINING
From a very young age, he started training and working as a draftsman. In 1978 he started to make contact with the world of glass and its different applications in the artistic field. He started his first business, a workshop dedicated to artistic stained glass… windows, in Castelar (Santander). There he started manufacturing stained glass, mainly destined to the decorative and hospitality industry.
In 1981, he created a multidisciplinary work group with the Stained Glass Masters of the Basque-French School Echevarría and Andrade, and with the Stained Glass Masters of the School of León.
In 1982-83 he attended his first training courses regarding the conservation, restoration and consolidation of historic and medieval stained glass windows in the International Stained Glass Centre. This enabled him to take the chance to learn in the Chartres Cathedral (France) and the Bourges Cathedral (France). From 1984 to 1989 he attended many fairs, seminars and conferences – both national and international ones.
Between 1990 and 2003 he collaborated with different institutions: International Stained Glass Centre (Chartres, France); International Stained Glass Centre (Bourges, France); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas del Vidrio Profesor Hareas Navarro (Madrid, Spain); Instituto de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos of the University Menéndez Pelayo; the Pol Lleti Foundation.
He also discovered and retrieved transcriptions of Medieval Codices regarding the manufacture and pigmentation of flat glass for the Archive of the Library of the Corning Museum (New York, United States).
In 1996, in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, he created and led the society named Sociedad Maestros Vidrieros Montañeses in the municipality of Pámanes (Cantabria). From there, he organized and led conferences and exhibitions with different themes relating to Artistic Stained Glass Windows and the policies which regulate the different methods of intervention in the processes of giving a solution to the historic stained glass windows in both Cantabria and France. He also carried out scientific researches and studies regarding the performance of the vitreous mass and the alterations produced by environmental phenomena. And, moreover, he carried out research and iconographic representation studies, reports and inventory memoirs, as well as, dating and cataloguing of historic stained glass.
TEACHING
Between 2004 and 2015, in collaboration with the European Common Fund, Cultura de Santander, the Town Councils of Liérganes and Pámanes and the Sociedad Maestros Vidrieros Montañeses, he created and led the first school of artistic stained glass windows in Santander, Cantabria, where he carried… out many programmes and monographic courses with a focus on the design, creation and conservation of artistic stained glass.
Today, Estudios Alfredo Pris, via different exhibitions and conferences, continues to carry out an important task with regards to the dissemination of information on Stained Glass and Glass: its origins, its elaboration, its representations and its key role in history.
SELECTED WORK
Religious heritage (restoration and conservation):
Church of S.M. de Llanos (Cantabria).
Church of S.M. de Candás (Asturias).
Church of S.M. del Puerto (Santoña, Cantabria).
Church of San Pedro Castillo de Siete Villas (Cantabria).
Church of San Pedro (Noja, Cantabria).
Church of the P.P. Cabezón de la Sal (Cantabria).
Church of the Arronte.… (La Cavada, Cantabria).
Skylight for the Seminario de Corbán (Cantabria).
Civil and private heritage (restoration and conservation):
The Marques de Albaicín Palace (Noja, Cantabria).
The Marqués de Comillas “Sobrellano” Palace (Comillas, Cantabria).
Royal Palace of La Magdalena (Santander, Cantabria).
Batista Falla Palace (Hoz de Anero, Cantabria).
“El Promontorio” Palace. Fundación Botín (Santander, Cantabria).
The Familia Pereda Palace (Santander, Cantabria).
Santa Clara Institute (Santander, Cantabria).
Menéndez Pelayo Library (Santander, Cantabria).
Royal Tennis Club of La Magdalena (Santander, Cantabria).
Civil Government Delegation (Santander, Cantabria).
Religious heritage (professional achievements):
Church of the P.P. Carmelites (Santander, Cantabria).
Church Hospital of Liencres (Cantabria).
Church of San Lorenzo (Pámanes, Cantabria).
Church of San Pedro (Liérganes, Cantabria).
Church of the S.C. del Humillado (Liérganes, Cantabria).
Church of San Sebastián (Liérganes, Cantabria).
Church of San Miguel (Heras, Cantabria).
Church of La Cavada (Cantabria).
Church of the V. del Faro (Santander, Cantabria).
Obra San Martín Chapel (Santander, Cantabria).
Church of Hoz de Anero (Cantabria).
Civil and private heritage (professional achievements):
Chamber of Trade and Navigation (Santander, Cantabria).
Royal Maritime Club (Santander, Cantabria).
Royal Tennis Club of La Magdalena (Santander, Cantabria).
Victoria Hotel (Santander, Cantabria).
Royal Palace of La Magdalena (Santander, Cantabria).
“El Promontorio” Palace. Fundación Botín (Santander, Cantabria).
