Joaquim Marsillach i Codony

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Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (born May 22, 1905 in Olot ; † July 17, 1986 ibid) was a Catalan painter who was in the tradition of the Olot School . With his classic, unmistakable landscape themes, he is a representative of bucolic realism and comes very close to impressionism.

life and work

Marsillach went through the Escola de Belles Arts d'Olot . He was a student of Enric Galwey , Ignasi Mallol and Xavier Nogués . The first exhibitions took place from 1933. An exhibition in Barcelona in 1935 already brought his artistic breakthrough; further exhibitions followed in Olot, Terrassa , Barcelona , Valencia and Madrid . In 1954 he took part in the Havana Biennale . Marsillach followed Olot's landscape school, which he interpreted in a modern and realistic manner. He brought his personal preference for impressionism into this style . With the Olotenser realism and the brushstrokes typical of Impressionism, the lack of detail drawings and the interest in nature, he becomes the outstanding, impressionist representative of the Olot school. In order not to let the impression of loneliness arise in the picture, he reflects his figures through reflections from the water and reflections from trees.

Marsillach belonged to the generation of Josep Pujol , Ramon Barnadas and Pere Gussinyé from the school of Olot. Of the four named, he is the one who has developed the least thematically and motifically. He took up all the teachings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries from this landscape painting school and integrated them into his work. He himself is in love with the landscape (the object) and the landscape painting itself. He neither wanted to idealize these landscapes nor to portray them in a different way. He presented her in all her purity, integrity, and beauty. When a tree was felled, he always opposed it. He strictly refused to destroy nature in the Franco period. He felt every destruction of nature as a destruction of his own life. He always saw people in their vulnerability and danger. His painterly work always reflected an inner peace with nature. All of his landscapes are landscapes of peace. His landscapes showed a world without contamination and environmental destruction. He defined his work as a work before the plastic age. The search for indestructible matter, plastic and plastic products, will destroy us after Marsillach itself. Marsillach's work can therefore be seen as an emotional reminder of a better time that has remained in the painter's memory. Marsillach put the dirty world aside and gave us a clean art in which one could still hear the fountain and the birdsong. This art, originally from Olot, was particularly appreciated in the big city of Barcelona. Marsillach therefore also made an annual trip to Barcelona, ​​where his plant had absolutely loyal customers. This originally Olotensian art should in no way be questioned or even liquidated by new art movements.

literature

  • Enciclopèdia catalana: Marsillach i Codony, Joaquim . In: Gran enciclopèdia catalana. 2nd edition, 5th reprint 1992. Volume 14 . Enciclopèdia catalana, Barcelona 1987, ISBN 84-7739-011-8 , p. 429 (Catalan).
  • Domenec Moli: Olot Art, Doscents Anys de Pintura. Article "Joaquim Marsillach" . Ed .: Viçens Coromina. Olot 1979, OCLC 803497564 , pp. 181-189 (Catalan).
  • Viçens Coromina (Ed.): 80 Artistes Olotins del anys 80th article “Joaquim Marsillach” . Olot 1982, OCLC 434435958 , pp. 88 (Catalan).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth and death exact to the day according to Real Academia de la Historia.
  2. ↑ Domenec Moli: Olot Art, Doscents Anys de Pintura . Ed .: Viçens Coromina. Olot 1979, OCLC 803497564 , pp. 181-189 (Catalan). Article "Joaquim Marsillach"
personal data
SURNAME Marsillach i Codony, Joaquim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marsillach, Joaquim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Olot
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1986
Place of death Olot