Pelegrín Clavé

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The Good Samaritan (1838), Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi , Barcelona

Pelegrín Clavé i Roquer or y Roque or y Rogué (* 1811 in Barcelona ; † 1880 ibid) was a Spanish painter, whose Catalan -influenced artistic style mixed with that of Nazarene art .

Life

Clavé studied at the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi in Barcelona and as a scholarship holder from 1834 at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. There he met Friedrich Overbeck , among others . In 1846 he went to Mexico , where he painted various portraits, landscapes and historical pictures and, as director of the Academia Nacional de San Carlos de México , had a strong influence on the development of Mexican art with his Nazarene style of painting. In 1868 he returned to his hometown. Here he was accepted as a numbered member of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.

Famous works

  • Retratos de Dama y de Caballero (1834; "Portraits of the Lady and the Knight")

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Pelegrín Clavé ( Memento of the original of April 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Directorio de las Artes Plásticas. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.valuarte.com