Pablo Gargallo
Pablo Emilio Gargallo Catalán (born January 5, 1881 in Maella , Saragossa province , † December 28, 1934 in Reus , Tarragona province ) was a Spanish sculptor and painter . He is considered one of the most important artists of the avant-garde Aragonese.
Life
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In 1888 Pablo Gargallo moved with his family from Maella to Barcelona , where he completed an unpaid apprenticeship as a foundryman and stonemason in Eusebio Anaus' workshop in 1894 . In evening classes he improved his drawing skills. In 1898 Gargallo took part in a first collective exhibition in Barcelona. In 1900 he attended the La Llotja School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. From this school he received a travel grant to Paris in 1902 , which he began in October 1903.
In 1904 he was commissioned to design the sculptures, both inside and outside, for the new building of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona. In 1908 he was responsible for the sculptures inside the Palau de la Música Catalana, also in Barcelona. Both ensembles are now part of world heritage of UNESCO .
He later went to France , where he lived for a long time in the Paris district of Montparnasse . Gargallo joined the artist colony in the Bateau-Lavoir with Max Jacob , Juan Gris and other starving artists, including Pablo Picasso . Through Gris, Gargallo met the artist and model Magali Tartanson, whom he married in 1915. Among his works are three sculptures by the Swedish film actress Greta Garbo , as well as a sculpture made of sheet copper from 1926 Bacchante .
The city of Barcelona commissioned him in 1927, in preparation for the 1929 World's Fair , with the production of three sculptures for the Placa de Catalunya. In 1929 Gargallo produced four sculptures for the stadium in Montjuich , as well as two chariots made of artificial stone and two horsemen with an Olympic salute made of bronze, which are now in the Palacio de la Virreina in Barcelona. Copies of the statues are placed in the courtyard of the Museo Gargallo in Saragossa .
In 1932 he participated in an exhibition of Iberian artists in the Flechtheim Gallery in Berlin , as well as in an exhibition in the Brummer Gallery in New York City .
Pablo Gargallo died on December 28, 1934 in Reus of complications from pneumonia .
Group exhibitions
- Iron sculpture from Spain , Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim , Museum Bochum , Haus am Waldsee , Berlin.
literature
- Pablo Gargallo in: Iron Sculpture from Spain , Spanish Foreign Ministry, Madrid 1990, ISBN 84-85290-80-1 . Pp. 32-41.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf Stadler et al. a .: Lexicon of Art 5th Gal - Mr. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, ISBN 3-86070-452-4 , p. 12.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gargallo, Pablo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gargallo Catalán, Pablo Emilio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maella , Zaragoza Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1934 |
| Place of death | Reus , Tarragona Province |