Josep Traité i Compte

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Josep Traité i Compte (1995).

Josep Traité i Compte (born September 13, 1935 in Olot ) is a Catalan sculptor, nativity scene artist and watercolorist who is artistically in the baroque tradition. Traité is a specialist in small-format, polychrome terracotta sculptures. He addresses the life of the Catalan farmers at the beginning of the 20th century or nativity scenes around the birth of Jesus. Traité also worked as a lecturer in modeling and crib art, as well as a manager in the sculpture industry. As a crib artist, one of his cribs is on permanent display in the Vatican library. Josep Traité is the son of the sculptor Manel Traité i Figueras .

life and work

Traité attended primary school in Olot. At the age of seven he was already making remarkable panel drawings of Christian scenes in school. In artistic terms, Josep Traité was initially a student of his father. At the age of ten he attended the Escola de Belles Arts in Olot. His teachers here were Martí Casadevall , Lluís Carbonell , Solé i Jorba , Bartomeu Mas i Collellmir and Pere Gussinyé . At the age of 13 he was awarded the Center Catòlic d'Olot's painting prize . At first he was interested in oil painting, then switched to watercolor painting and kept this painting technique throughout his life. In addition to privately operated painting, he devoted himself to sculpture at El Arte Cristiano . In later years he took over the management of El Arte Cristiano .

In 1957 he did his military service in Ceuta . He gave art lessons in the Spanish army and headed the drawing and modeling department. Traité had his first own studio in Ceuta. After military service, he perfected his skills as a sculptor in Perpignan and Toulouse. From 1974 to 1976 Traité worked as a lecturer in modeling at the Escola de Belles Arts in Olot.

Traité worked as a crib artist for life. In 1955 he created his first large art nativity scene in the form of a diorama. Every year from 1965 to 1971 he made a large crib for the La Caritat retirement home in Olot. He dedicated the last of these cribs to his great artistic role model Ramon Amadeu on the 150th anniversary of his death. In 1986 he made a crib on the order of the Vatican, which he personally handed over to John Paul II . This crib is on display in the Vatican Library. Traité is the founder and was a lecturer at the Escola de Pesebrisme ( nativity school ) in Olot. He is a member and was chairman of the Pessebristes von Olot . He has worked as a lecturer in nativity art at schools in Figueres, Sabadell, Lloret de Mar, Mataro and Banyoles. In 1984 he took part in the Exposició Internacional de Pessebres (International Nativity Scene Exhibition) organized by UNESCO in Paris . He has received numerous prizes as a crib artist.

As a painter and sculptor, Traité had numerous exhibitions all over Spain. Traité created a bust by and for Gala Dalí . This bust was first presented to the public at the opening of the Dalí Museum . Salvador Dalí personally congratulated Traité on this bust of his wife. In 1989, Traité created five figures for the official Easter procession in Girona. Traité also received numerous awards for his painting and profane sculptural work.

In the Museu Etnològic de L'Espluga (Ethnological Museum of Espluga de Francolí ) there is a room with around 100 sculptures, also ethnologically valuable, on agricultural subjects by Josep Traité.

Rating

Josep Traité is considered one of the best figurative artists in Catalonia. His paintings and sculptures must be located in a baroque art style. Carme Verdaguer writes in her book L'Escultura a Olot : The works of Traité are very personally shaped 1. by their face, 2. by their rhythm and 3. by their movement. In April 2014, the city of Olot dedicated an anthological exhibition to the artist in the Museu de la Garrotxa.

literature

  • Josep Maria Canals: Diccionari Biogràfic d'Olot; Article “Traité i Compte, Josep” . Ed .: Ajuntament d'Olot. 1st edition. Olot 2015, OCLC 943687866 , p. 738 f . (Catalan).

Web links

Commons : Josep Traité  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the YouTube video by Olot Cultura under Weblinks.
personal data
SURNAME Traité i Compte, Josep
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan sculptor, nativity scene artist and watercolorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Olot