Joaquim Sunyer

Joaquim Sunyer i de Miró , also known as Joaquím Sunyer (born December 20, 1874 in Sitges , province of Barcelona , † November 1, 1956 ibid), was a Catalan painter and engraver . He is regarded as one of the most important representatives of the Noucentisme in Catalonia and Spain.

Life

Already in his youth he was taught drawing and painting by his uncle Joaquim Miró . At the age of 15 he moved with his family to Barcelona and studied art at the famous Escola de la Llotja Barcelona with Joaquim Mir , Isidre Nonell and Joaquín Torres García . After graduating in 1896, his works were exhibited in the Exposición de Bellas Artes Barcelona . In the same year he went to Paris , where he first followed the style of Neo-Impressionism . He painted numerous landscapes and portraits. His long stay in Paris brought him together with Pablo Picasso , Manolo Martínez Hugué , Amedeo Modigliani and Albert Marquet . During this time in France he also made short study trips to Italy. His compositions are characterized by the light of the Mediterranean and are very colorful. In 1911 he returned to Catalonia and moved into his house in Sitges , where he worked until his death.

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Joaquim Sunyer , 1916
Oil on canvas
81 × 30 cm
Private collection, Terrassa Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

His friends were the writers Joan Maragall , Eugeni d'Ors and Joan Salvat ; they brought him into the political environment of the Catalan movement Solidaritat Catalana , founded by Enric Prat de la Riba at the beginning of the 19th century , from which, under his influence, the Catalan painting of Noucentisme followed.

His works from the time of the Noucentisme were marked by reason, accuracy, seriousness, order and clarity. The clear line took precedence over color and sobriety. He succeeded in synthesizing a landscape analysis , the structural aspects of which were shaped by Paul Cézanne , and his own figural art, which shows the same structure as in some patterns of the early Italian Renaissance. Sunyer painted anti-realistic and normative, he reproduced archetypes of Catalan landscapes and portrayed his compatriots with a great sense of harmony and balance. He always signed his works very simply with Sunyer .

Works of the Noucentisme

• 1908, El maset de Sitges , landscape, gouache, 26 × 34 cm, Hervé Massenet Collection, Boucau
• 1913, Three Naked Women in the Forest , Portrait, oil on canvas, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya , Barcelona
• 1916, María Dolors , portrait, oil on canvas, 85 × 70 cm, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
• 1916, Dos hermanas , portrait, oil on canvas, 30 × 81 cm, private collection, Terrassa
• 1925, Desnudo en el campo , oil on canvas, 100 × 81 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao , Bilbao

Other works by Sunyer are not only represented in Catalonia and throughout Spain, but also in museums and exhibitions around the world.

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• Joaquím Sunyer in Enciclopèdia Catalana