Josep Palau i Fabre
Josep Palau i Fabre (born April 21, 1917 in Barcelona ; † February 23, 2008 there ) was a Catalan writer and art critic .
Life
Josep Palau i Fabre, son of a Catalan painter, studied humanities. As an opposition activist and activist, he campaigned for the freedom of art in the Franco era. He was first known in the 1950s for erotic poems; his work Poemes de l'alquimista , published in 1952, was banned under the Franco regime. He spent 15 years in exile in France .
He was an artist with a large body of work. As a poet, dramaturge, narrator and essayist, he published numerous stories, poems and plays, mostly in Catalan , but also in Spanish and French. He was the founder and editor of the literary magazine Poesía , later the magazine Ariel . He became known worldwide with his more than twenty publications on Pablo Picasso such as Doble assaig sobre Picasso (1964), El Gernika de Picasso (1979) and Picasso cubisme (1990); he was considered one of the greatest experts on the life and work of Picasso.
In 2003 the Fundació Palau ('Palau Foundation') in Caldes d'Estrac was named after him. The foundation documents his personal friendships with Picasso, Antonin Artaud , Octavio Paz , Jean Cocteau , Federico García Lorca , Rafael Alberti and other artists of the 20th century.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josep Palau i Fabre in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
- Literature by and about Josep Palau i Fabre in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Josep Palau i Fabre in the catalog of the library of the Instituto Cervantes in Germany
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Palau i Fabre, Josep |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Josep Palau |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish writer and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2008 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |