Antoni Cumella

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Antoni Cumella (born August 31, 1913 in Granollers , Catalonia , † January 25, 1985 there ) was a Spanish ceramicist .

life and work

Antoni Cumella i Serret was born in 1913 as the son of a jeweler. After his father died, his mother married a ceramist. In 1928 Cumella made his first sculptural ceramics, which he exhibited in his hometown Granollers. Santiago Rusiñol gave the opening speech. From 1930 he went to the Escola del Treball de Barcelona and studied with Josep Maria Jujol . He also took courses with Josep Lluís Sert at the Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris .

In 1935 Cumella became a ceramic teacher at the Grup Escolar Lluís Vives in Barcelona. Cumella met Pau Casals , Manolo Martínez Hugué , Miquel Llor and Josep Llorens i Artigas .

Feliu Elias i Bracons wrote the foreword for the exhibition catalog for Antoni Cumella's first solo exhibition in 1936 in the Syra Gallery . Cumella exhibited regularly at the Syra Gallery. He was a participant in the 6th Milan Triennial and won the gold medal. In 1951 and 1957 he took part again.

Cumella spent the war years 1936 to 1939 as a medic. Towards the end of the Spanish Civil War , he was taken to a concentration camp in French-speaking Spain and released in 1940. However, his passport was confiscated. In 1942 he married Agnès Vendrell, with whom he had two children.

Antoni Cumella's work has been exhibited mainly in Spain, Italy and Germany. There are both solo exhibitions and exhibitions in combination with paintings or graphics by other well-known artists, such as Pablo Picasso , Antoni Tàpies , Joaquín Torres García , Joan Miró , Georges Braque , Berto Lardera , Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali . In 1986 his work was recognized posthumously with an exhibition in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid) and in 1992 at the documenta IX in Kassel.

Awards

  • 1936: Gold medal 6th Triennial of Milan
  • 1980: Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas (España)
  • 1981: Creu de Sant Jordi Prize
  • 1982: Medalla d'or del FAD

literature

  • Antoni Cumella: Ceramic and plastic publication for the exhibition in Hamburg 1971, Heinz Spielmann , Verlag Hamburg 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 56, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  2. ↑ Museo de Granollers Antoni Cumella , accessed on July 1, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Cumella, Antoni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cumella i Serret, Antoni (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish ceramist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Granollers , Catalonia
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1985
Place of death Granollers