Iu Pascual i Rodés

Iu Pascual i Rodés (Spanish also Ivo Pascual , born October 28, 1883 in Vilanova i la Geltrú , Catalonia ; † July 29, 1949 in Riudarenes , Catalonia) was a Catalan painter and art teacher and a classic representative of the Olot School . He led from 1915 to 1934, the Escola Menor de Belles Arts i Oficis (, School of Visual Arts and crafts') in Olot , and from 1936 to 1939 by the end of the Spanish Civil War by the Catalan government recently founded Escola Superior of Paisatge ( 'School of Landscape Painting') in Olot. Iu Pascual was relieved of his artistic teaching and management duties in Olot after the civil war by representatives of the Franco regime . As a victim, he represents a classic example of the purges of the Frankist regime after the end of the civil war.

Life

Girona (1949)

Iu Pascual was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú in 1883. He came from a middle-class family and initially studied architecture. When he discovered his talent for drawing and painting, he enrolled in an art academy for drawing and painting lessons. Here he came into contact with the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc , one of the leading circles of the Catalan Noucentisme in Barcelona , where he exhibited his own pictures as early as 1902. In 1911 he was awarded at the Exposició de Belles Arts in Barcelona. After the death of Josep Berga i Boix , he took over the management of the Escola Menor d'Arts i Oficis in Olot after a public appointment process . As a painter as well as a teacher, he developed guidelines for traditional, bucolic landscape painting. In addition, he gave the school new impulses in nude painting, perspective drawing, artistic wood and metalworking and in architecture. From 1931 he formed this institution into a comprehensive school for fine arts and handicrafts. In 1934 Iu Pascual took over the management of L'Escola Superior de Paisatge, newly founded by the Catalan government (Generalitat) in Olot . He developed the curriculum as well as the entire organization of this art school. In March 1936, he organized an exhibition in the Casa de l'Ardiaca in Barcelona, in which he demonstrated the capabilities of the new Olotens School of Art. During the civil war, Iu Pascual did everything in his power to preserve the art school he supervised and the culture of art in Olot. Towards the end of the war, Iu Pascal was brought before a "Tribunal for Political Responsibility" and found guilty of running an art school established by the Catalan government. He was removed from his apprenticeship and placed under house arrest, so that he could no longer follow his life theme of landscape painting. The art college he supervised was closed. Iu Pascual went to Riudarenes, where he spent the last ten years of his life.

Iu Pascal represented a landscape painting in the sense of Noucentism (Catalan Art Nouveau). He painted landscapes with and without figures. One of his artistic specialties are nude drawings in the landscape. The landscape he preferred to depict was the landscape of the Garrotxa around Olot. Pascual made Olot an important place of the Catalan Noucentism. Pascual also composed a sardana . According to his statements, this dance fits perfectly into the landscape of the Garrotxa.

literature

Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . 1st edition, Volume 11, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-85194-05-5 , page 340, article Pascual i Rodés, Iu .
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . 2nd edition, volume 17, Barcelona 1988, ISBN 84-7739-017-7 , page 291 f., Article Pascual i Rodés, Iu .
M. Assumpcio Arnau i Prades, Joan Sala i Plana: L'art olotí en el XIX i XX . Series: Quaderns de la Revista de Girona , Girona 2013, ISBN 978-84-15808-03-9 , page 62 f., Chapter 25: Iu Pascual - El Pedagog .
Ajuntament d'Olot, Museu Comarcal Olot (editor): Directors de l'Escola, Obres i Etapes, Escola de Belles Arts 1783 - 1983 (Edicions Municipals No 21), Olot 1983, 32 unnumbered pages, exhibition catalog from 1983 in Catalan, there from page 20 "Ivo Pascual, Director de l'Escola 1915 - 1934"
Ajuntament d'Olot (editor), Josep M. Canals: Diccionari Biogràfic d'Olot, Olot 2015, ISBN 978-84-938058-4-5 , page 525, article "Pascual i Rodés, Iu"
Alexandre Cuéllar i Bassols: El Pintor Ivo Pascual, Biografia Íntima, Olot 1983, ISBN 84-7216-040-8 , 284 pages (in Catalan)

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personal data
SURNAME	Pascual i Rodés, Iu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pascual, Ivo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish painter and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vilanova i la Geltrú
DATE OF DEATH	July 29, 1949
Place of death	Riudarenes