Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa

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The old hospice in Olot, which houses the Garrotxa Museum
The courtyard of the old hospice in Olot
Interior view of the Garrotxa Museum on the upper floor of the old hospice in Olot
Ramon Casas: “The attack” (also “Barcelona 1902”) in the Museu Comarcal in the old hospice in Olot

The Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa , also Museu de la Garrotxa and Museu d'Art Modern d'Olot , the Garrotxa Museum, is an art museum in the Catalan city ​​of Olot . The museum was inaugurated in 1943 in a neoclassical villa from 1854 in the “Parc Nou” of Olot as a gift from the Sureda family to the city of Olot as the Museu d'Art Modern d'Olot . This museum has been part of the Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa museum network since 1981 . Since that time the art museum has been housed in the old hospice of Olot. The volcano and natural history museums of the city are now located at the former location in the villa in Parc Nou. The Olot Art Museum offers an important collection on the Olot School of Painting , as well as outstanding sculptures by the sculptors Miquel Blay , Josep Clarà and Joaquim Claret, as well as drawings and paintings by important artists of Catalan Modernism , Postmodernism and Noucentism . Particularly impressive is the huge anti-war painting “La Càrrega” (the attack, the storm) by Ramon Casas , which is also known as “Barcelona 1902”.

The location of the museum

The Garrotxa Museum is now housed in the former hospice and poor house, a neoclassical building constructed between 1777 and 1784. This house was never used as a hospice. At first it was used as a school and apartment for teachers, later for the art academy and the library archive. More than once it was also used as a barracks. It is an encompassing but very functional building with a large arcaded courtyard. It was designed by Ventura Rodríguez, one of Spain's leading modern architects in the 18th century. In addition to the Garrotxa Museum, the Caritas office, the historical regional archive of the Garrotxa and the city's tourism office are housed here.

Tour of the museum

The Garrotxa Museum in Olot offers a very memorable tour of the city's art history. In particular, it offers a comprehensive overview of the works of the “ School of Olot ”. At the beginning of the tour, baroque nativity figures by the sculptor Ramon Amadeu are shown, which show a beautiful level of detail in the design of the faces and hands. Amadeu worked in Olot for over five years, consolidating the town's religious folk art at a very high artistic level. Then impressive landscapes by the two brothers Joaquin , the founder of the school of Olot, and Marià Vayreda i Vila and the great teacher of this landscape painting school Josep Berga i Boix are shown. The sculpture collection of the two leading figures of modernism and noucentism is also noteworthy : Miquel Blay and Josep Clarà i Ayats . The plaster sculpture “Le Boulet” (1906, the block, the stumbling block) by Blay or the figure “Èxtasis” (1903, a woman's sculpture with a violin) by Clarà make the heart of every sculpture lover beat faster . The painter Iu Pascual is an outstanding representative of Noucentism. From the beginning he paid the highest attention and admiration to the landscape painting of Joaquin Vayreda. His own landscape paintings from 1910 onwards were initially somewhat aggressive in color, but from 1915 onwards they became more subtle and milder. At the end of the tour, the museum shows pictures by post-war artists who follow the tradition of the Olot School and who still determine the art life in the galleries of the city and throughout Catalonia today, including: Lluis Carbonell , Josep Pujol , Pere Gussinyé , J. Marsillach , Sebastià Congost .

literature

  • Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2nd edition, vol. 16, article “Museu d'Art Modern d'Olot”, page 24, Barcelona 1992 (5th reprint), ISBN 84-7739-014-2
  • Salvador Comalat i Casalprim and Joan Oller i Guinó, Olot i el seu entorn: Textos de Joan Oller, Pròleg de Jordi Pujiula . 230 pages, editor Carme Simon (series: Llibres de Batet), Olot, 2006, ISBN 84-86626-40-4 (extensive illustrated book of Olot and the surrounding area. Catalan, English, Spanish), there passages about the L'Hospici building, in which the museum is housed.

Web links

Commons : Garrotxa Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Explanations

  1. ↑ Catalan: l'Edifici Hospici
  2. ↑ Ventura Rodríguez * 1717 † 1785
  3. ↑ Catalan: Oficina de Turisme
  4. ↑ This paragraph was written after Salvador Comalat, Joan Oller, 2006, page 68 ff
  5. ↑ Ramon Amadeu i Grau * Barcelona 1745 † Barcelona 1821
  6. ↑ On the subject of "Religious Folk Art in Olot" see also the article: Museu dels Sants d'Olot .
  7. ↑ Joaquin Vayreda i Vila * Girona 1843 † Olot 1894
  8. ↑ Marià Vayreda i Vila sometimes also called Marian ; * Olot 1853 † Barcelona 1903
  9. ↑ The Noucentisme is a cultural movement that emerged from modernism with strong political implications and that arose in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century. In art and architecture he advocates order, clarity, harmony and measure as leading values ​​in contrast to the “romantic chaos” of modernism. For more detailed information see the article Noucentisme in the English Wikipedia.
  10. ↑ Miquel Blay i Fàbregas * Olot 1866 † Madrid 1936
  11. ^ Josep Clarà i Ayats * Olot 1878 † Barcelona 1958
  12. ^ Iu Pascual i Rodés * Vilanova i la Geltrú 1883 † Riudarenes 1949
  13. ↑ This paragraph was written in December 2006 based on information from the Garrotxa Museum

Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ 52.3 "  N , 2 ° 29 ′ 21.8"  E