August Puig
August Puig i Bosch (born April 1, 1929 in Barcelona , † October 25, 1999 in Monells , Girona province , Catalonia ) was a Spanish abstract painter .
Life
He left school in 1944 to begin an apprenticeship as a goldsmith. Stimulated by his father and his painter friends, he became interested in art at an early age and began to draw and paint while still at school. His acquaintance with Joan Miró influenced his first abstract attempts. In 1946 he received the 1st prize at the exhibition at Union Arte in Bilbao . In the same year he took part in the first presentation of modern Spanish painting after the civil war in the Els Blaus association in the exhibition center in the Sarrià district of Barcelona. After this exhibition, the exhibition center was closed for years by the representatives of the Franco dictatorship. Through the Institut Français he received an art grant from the French government for Paris . Thereupon he broke off his apprenticeship and lived in Paris from 1947. There he took part in the Salon de Mai for the first time in 1948 . In 1949 his first solo exhibition took place at Bernard Dorival . During these years he started a family and spent a long time in Algeria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland, among others.
In 1953 he left Paris and went to Sweden for a year , and in the next few years he maintained contacts in Switzerland and Germany , where he worked, for example, in 1959 and 1961 in the Galerie Olaf Hudtwalcker in the Jazzhaus at 12 Kleine Bockenheimer Gasse in Frankfurt Main exhibited. Of course, it always took him to Paris.
However, he lived and worked very secluded in Barcelona. From 1961 it opened. His resistance to everything that was state in Franco Spain was less. In 1962, his previous work was shown in a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporanéo de Barcelona . In the same year he even consented to his works being included in the large exhibition Pintura Espanola in the Tate Gallery in London and in the Provincial Museum in Málaga .
He started working on topics related to Federico García Lorca . His work remained abstract over the next few decades. They are partly a processing of his childhood experiences in the civil war. Until his death he lived in seclusion with his family in Monells on the Empordà plain east of Girona, where he had set up a house and studio.
literature
- Antonio Fernández Molína : August Puig . Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid.
- Exhibition catalog: August Puig Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, for the exhibition from October 30 to December 1, 1963, with introductory notes by Wieland Schmied
- Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer: Exhibition catalog for the retrospective August Puig , 1962, in the Museo de Arte Contemporanéo de Barcelona
- Miquel-Àngel Codes Luna : August Puig: obra grafica , DL Anuart, Valencia
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- Biography (es.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Puig, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Puig i Bosch, August (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1999 |
| Place of death | Monells, Girona Province , Spain |