style: Realism

Fishing at the beach

One of the first painters to approach landscape directly from nature, en plein air. He started from rural naturalism at the workshop of his master, Ramon Martí Alsina, with whom he would remain friends, but he progressively stripped away the superfluous elements from the landscape, gradually evolving towards a freer, lighter and more modern approach.

Around Montornès del Vallès

The landscape depicts a small forest, a path, a row of trees, some farmland and a mountain ridge. The composition is divided into two parts, the lower half with the road and vegetation and the upper half with the cloudy sky. In his pictorial language, the painter of this period moves away from the most […]

Rural street

A rural street, it is believed to be a street in Castell d’Empordà or Santa Pau, which would link him to his land of origin from where he would leave young due to poverty and problems with a stepmother. Under his brush, this rural street approach presents itself to us as a self-contained theme. It […]

Interior of a country house

Benet Mercadé was from Emporda, the son of a decorative painter, gilder and votive painter. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona – where he was appointed professor in 1882 – and the School of Fine Arts San Fernando in Madrid. He started as an ornamental painter and worked with daguerreotypes. He […]

Camprodón

Golden landscape. Cerdanya

A disciple of Eliseu Meifrèn and Joaquim Mir, among others, and professor at the Escola de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. The landscapes chosen are mainly of around Deià (Mallorca), Port de la Selva, Puigcerdà and Cerdanya. A painter from a period in the history of Catalan landscape painting, from the Noucentisme generation returning to […]

Sant Llorenç de Munt

Countryside road

Vall de Núria

He often painted Montesquiu and the river Freser, at night and day, from one bank or the other. Over a period of more than 30 years, he spent many summers in this area, sometimes in the company of other painters. He also painted mountains, particularly the nooks and valleys of Núria, to which he had […]

Landscape

Domingo Soler was a stage designer and painter known mainly for his landscapes and watercolours. His peaceful and pleasant landscapes, painted with a very controlled pallet, depict reality from a post-romantic perspective, with a certain lyricism and great serenity.