Julio González (Barcelona, 1876 – Paris, 1945) was a Spanish sculptor and one of the most important Spanish artists from the first half of the 20th Century.

He started his career as a goldsmith, working during his very first years making jewelry and small objects. His first works of art were highly figurative, following the ideas of Catalan Novecentism.

Afterwards he moved to Paris where he met the artistic avant-garde. He soon started feeling attracted by the abstract movements that were growing in the French capital and started moving towards abstraction. After having worked for Renault he applied the technique of welding to the artistic practice. The result was the translation into sculpture the Cubist language of Pablo Picasso, giving the “emptiness” the whole relevance in the sculptures.