Enric Galwey i Garcia

Enric Galwey portrayed by Ramon Casas , MNAC , Barcelona

Enric Galway: Female Figure with Landscape (Museo Victor Balaguer)

Enric Galwey i Garcia (* 1864 in Barcelona ; † February 10, 1931 ibid) was a Catalan painter who was in the tradition of the landscape painting school of Olot . The family on his father's side came from England. Galwey was the most distinctive painter of the second generation of artists in the Olot School. His work is strongly influenced by Joaquim Vayreda , but also by the Barbizon school .

Galwey had completed his artistic training at the Llotja , the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona . From 1885 he continued his education in landscape painting at the Art Academy in Olot with Joaquim Vayreda. In the same year he exhibited for the first time at the Center d'Aquarel·listes de Barcelona . Exhibitions in Madrid , Berlin , Düsseldorf , Paris , London , Venice and Buenos Aires followed . From 1889 he went to further studies with the painters Théodore Rousseau , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Jean-François Millet of the Barbizon School. His works, influenced by this painting school, often show sunsets (dark-toned pictures) or are distinguished by the formation of strong shadows that do not appear decadent. Overall, the tendency towards cautious impressionism emerges in Galwey's work .

In 1915 he won first prize for the painting Paisatge (Landscape) at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes de Madrid. Together with Modest Urgell and Lluís Graner , he founded the Societat Artística i Literària de Catalunya , the artistic and literary society of Catalonia. In his work El que he vist a can Parés (1934, “What I saw in the Parés house”), Galwey describes anecdotes about art and the artists of his time.

literature

Enciclopèdia catalana: Galwey i Garcia, Enric . In: Gran enciclopèdia catalana. 2nd edition, 5th reprint 1992. Volume 11 . Enciclopèdia catalana, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 84-7739-006-1 , p. 448 (Catalan).

Web links

Commons : Enric Galwey i Garcia - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Enric Galwey i Garcia in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Enciclopedia.cat: Enric Galwey i Garcia. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Catalan).
Museo del Prado: Enric Galwey i Garcia. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Spanish).
Artnet.com: Works by Enric Galwey. Retrieved January 23, 2018 (Spanish).
Albert Benzekry Arimon (cultural representative of La Garriga) et al .: Exposició Enric Galwey i Garriga. Ajuntament de la Garriga, 2016, accessed January 24, 2018 (Catalan).
Fundacion Banco Sabadell: Enric Galwey i Garcia. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .

Individual evidence

↑ The exact date of death is given according to: Albert Benzekry Arimon 2016
↑ The Parés House is a very old art gallery in Barcelona.

personal data
SURNAME	Galwey i Garcia, Enric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1931
Place of death	Barcelona

[1] The exact date of death is given according to: Albert Benzekry Arimon 2016

[2] The Parés House is a very old art gallery in Barcelona.