In 1927 he opened his prestigious school of painting in the Portal del Ángel street (it was called "academy" or "school" indistinctly by its students, that would accompany him all his life. In 1947 it was moved to Paseo de Gracia, to the very same location where Santiago Rusiñol had had his study before and in the last period it was located at Muntaner street, disappearing at the same time than its funder and only lecturer.
Throughout more than 50 years, future artists and architects attended his lessons in the academy. Some became as renowed as Xavier Blanch, Freixas Cortés, Francesc Todó, Carlos Ballesteros, Manuel Solá Morales, Federico Correa or the Milà brothers.
“I am from the Sainz de la Maza school”. This sentence, pronounced by a painter, is easy to be heard in Barcelona today. When visiting museums and art galleries one might think that “painting schools” was something that ended with Renaissance, but that it not true. Still nowadays big artists combine their creative activity with education. Some call them academies and others, more modest perhaps, just studios, but both perform the same role that great art genius studios did before: to train new talented artists."
“Francisco Sainz de la Maza, brother of the famous guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza, is one of the modern painters with “school”: a plethora of artist candidates attend his courses every year”
V. Popescu. No se han acabado las escuelas pictóricas.
Sábado GRÁFICO. 1958; 96:14-15