Joan Granados i Llimona

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Joan Granados Llimona i , often shorter Joan Granados Llimona , (* 7. October 1931 in Barcelona , † 27. May 2005 in les Fonts Sant Joan ) was a Catalan artist, illustrator and painter who in the tradition of the Olot School was .

life and work

Granados i Llimona was born at a time when the political changes in Spain were already on the horizon. Granados i Llimona was a grandson of the composer and pianist Enrique Granados on his father's side and of the painter Joan Llimona i Bruguera on his mother's side . His father was Víctor Granados, one of the six children of Enrique Granados. His mother was Isabel Llimona i de Gisbert, daughter from Joan Llimona's first marriage to Pilar de Gisbert. His mother died at the age of 3. The father went to America after the death of his wife. Joan and his siblings were brought to relatives in the Garrotxa, first in Sant Feliu de Pallerols and a few months later in Sant Joan les Fonts.

As a boy, Joan learned various painting and drawing techniques from his aunt, the Catalan painter Núria Llimona i Raymat , in Barcelona. In 1939, after the Spanish Civil War , his family and young Joan went into exile in France for more than a year for security reasons. Granados Llimona then went to Barcelona to study with the Salesians and trained in trade. In 1947, at the age of 16, he joined a bank in Olot. Then worked as a civil servant for the city of Olot until he retired.

Granados i Llimona became interested in art from an early age. In particular, he was gifted at drawing. From 1947 he took drawing lessons from Martí Casadevall in Olot. For his drawings he studied landscapes, people and human anatomy. From 1949 to 1951 he took lessons in the studios of several artists in Barcelona and Olot. He completed this phase of training with the title Graduat en Arts Aplicadas (graduation in applied arts) at the Llotja of Barcelona. He was a member of the Cràter d'Art and took part in the Olotens Art Fairs ( La Fira del Dibuix ) every autumn as a co-organizer and co-coordinator . He started the art fair in Figueres, La Fira del Dibuix de Figueres . He was one of the co-founders of the art school in Sant Joan les Fonts, where he lives. He participated in art competitions in Beget , Olot and Banyoles as well as in various youth art competitions as a juror.

Honors

Numerous solo and group exhibitions followed, including in Olot, Figueras, Girona, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Hamburg, as well as contributions to art events such as the Olot and Figueres art fairs. Granados i Llimona has received numerous awards, prizes and recognitions for his artistic work. For example, he made it to the final selection for the international drawing competition of the Ynglada Guillot Foundation . He received the El deporte en las Bellas Artes de Madrid (The Sport in the Fine Arts) prize in Madrid, the first prize in drawing from the Museum of Andorra, two gold and two silver medals at the art competitions of the province of Girona ( Concurs Provincial de Girona ). The Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona acquired works by Granados i Llimona.

Granados i Llimona created numerous charcoal, ballpoint pen and ink drawings, and more rarely also works in mixed media (charcoal drawings with watercolor). He enjoyed creating large-format works as well as wall drawings, such as at the Castanyer school in his long-term home in Sant Joan les Fonts. Granados i Llimona was one of those Catalan artists who saw drawing as a fully fledged art. In his opinion, drawing was in no way subordinate to painting. His work reveals, on the one hand, a great joy in the art of drawing and, on the other hand, in outstanding, autonomous drawing technology. His excellent, personal, artistic style has often been highlighted by art critics.

Personal

Granados Llimona was married to Cinta Serrat i Masó. The marriage had two children: Josep and Núria Granados i Serrat.

literature

  • Josep Maria Canals: Diccionari Biogràfic d'Olot; Article “Granados i Llimona, Joan” . Ed .: Ajuntament d'Olot. 1st edition. Olot 2015, OCLC 943687866 , p. 371 (Catalan).

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Individual references and comments

  1. ↑ This artist is almost always addressed and qualified with his double name in the form Granados i Llimona or Granados Llimona due to the possibility of confusion within the family .
  2. ↑ The exact date of birth and death is taken from the school magazine Castanyer.cat of the Escola Castanyer from Sant Joan les Fonts. The artist's daughter Núria worked in 2011 as a teacher at the school mentioned. In 2011, a 4-week school project on the important local artist was carried out there. The artist's date of birth and death are given on page 2 of the June 2011 editorial of this newspaper issue.
  3. ↑ The intertwined relationships, especially on the part of the Llimona family of painters, were shown after Josep Maria Canals 2015.
  4. ↑ Núria Llimona i Raymat was the daughter of the painter Joan Llimona i Bruguera from his second marriage to Maria Raymat and thus formally Granados Llimona's "step aunt".
  5. ^ Statement by the artist's daughter Núria in an interview conducted by students in El Castanyer (school magazine). According to her daughter Núria, Aunt Núria Llimona realized several wall paintings in the old monastery church of Sant Joan les Fonts.
  6. ↑ According to daughter Núria in El Castanyer (school magazine ), private acquaintances in Germany have led to several exhibitions in northern Germany.
  7. ↑ These wall drawings are shown in El Castanyer (school magazine) on page 28 below.
personal data
SURNAME Granados i Llimona, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan draftsman and painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2005
Place of death Sant Joan les Fonts