Ramon Barnadas

Ramon Barnadas i Fàbrega (* 1909 in Olot , † 1981 in Vic ) was a Catalan painter who followed the tradition of the Olot School . As an early artistic talent, Barnadas attended the Escola de Belles Arts of Olot as a student of Iu Pascual at the age of ten . From 1935 he worked as a lecturer at this art school.

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Like Vicenç Soler i Jorba , Josep Pujol , Joaquim Marsillach and Lluís Carbonell, Barnadas belonged to the second generation of landscape painters in the Olot School. This generation developed completely new artistic questions and results compared to the founding generation around Joaquim Vayreda and Josep Berga . Technically committed above all to oil painting, this new generation enjoyed great artistic freedom in the context of the republican reign. Barnada's sketchy painting style went far beyond the teachings of realism and impressionism and was based on Cézanne . Barnadas created a new avant-garde in Catalan art with his style. In addition to classic landscape subjects, he created human and animal figures, still lifes, city and beach scenes and gypsy subjects in the same manner. His painting is primarily based on a very special color scheme. Artistically he represented a position that lay between the rational painting of Josep Pujol and the intuitive painting of Pere Gussinyé . His death in 1981 left an artistic void in Olot's landscape painting.

Exhibitions and honors

In 1929 Barnadas had his first individual exhibition. Exhibitions followed throughout Spain, Switzerland and Mexico. He has received numerous prizes and honors such as the Exposició Nacional de Madrid , the Exposició Internacional de Palamós , the National Prize for Landscape Painting of the Fundació Estrada and the Ricardo Portabella Prize . Particularly noteworthy are his exhibitions in 1927 and 1928 in the Galeries Laietanes and in 1924, 1933, 1935, 1936 in the Sala Barcino both in Barcelona . There were posthumous exhibitions in 2006 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death in the Fontana d'Or cultural center in Girona and at the Caixa de Girona . From December 2008 to January 2009, the Galeria Les Voltes in Olot Barnadas dedicated a retrospective exhibition. Two streets are currently named after Ramon Barnadas: one in Olot, the other in Girona.

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Starting from a common starting point with painters like Josep Pujol and Pere Gussinyé in the Escola d'Olot , Barnadas sought and opened new artistic paths in a kind of rebellion. He achieved an honest, direct, personal style free of any ideology, in which he depicted the landscapes, also and especially the seascapes of Catalonia, the evening melancholy of the mountains and the essence of humans and animals.

Ramon Barnadas' private collection of documents and art is kept in the Arxiu Comarcal de la Garrotxa in Olot.

literature

Arnau i Prades, M. Assumpció; Sala i Plana, Joan: L'art olotí en el XIX i XX . Chapter 28: Influència de l'Escola (there is also a short discussion by Ramon Barnadas). 1st ed.Diputació de Girona, Girona 2013, ISBN 978-84-15808-03-9 , pp. 68 (Catalan).
Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (ed.): Olot Art, Doscents Anys de Pintura . Ramon Barnadas. Olot 1979, OCLC 803497564 , pp. 47 ff . (Catalan).
Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (Ed.): 80 Artistes Olotins del anys 80 . Barnadas, Comellas, Gussinyé ... Olot 1982, OCLC 434435958 , pp. 12-29 (Catalan).

Web links

Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Ramon Barnadas i Fàbregas. Retrieved January 20, 2018 (Spanish).
Pintorescatalanes.blogspot.de: Ramón Barnadas Fábregas. Retrieved January 20, 2018 (Spanish).

Individual references and comments

↑ The life dates are given after Arnau i Prades, Sala i Plana, 2013, page 68.
↑ So Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina 1982 in the preface “Barnadas, Comellas, Gussinyé” to the representation of the Olotens artists of the 1980s.
↑ The paragraph "Exhibitions and honors" is based on information from the corresponding Catalan Wikipedia article.
↑ Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura: Arxiu Comarcal Garrotxa (records, documents and pictures by and about Ramon Barnadas). Retrieved January 21, 2018 (Catalan).

personal data
SURNAME	Barnadas, Ramon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barnadas i Fàbrega, Ramon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olot
DATE OF DEATH	1981
Place of death	Vic

[1] The life dates are given after Arnau i Prades, Sala i Plana, 2013, page 68.

[2] So Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina 1982 in the preface “Barnadas, Comellas, Gussinyé” to the representation of the Olotens artists of the 1980s.

[3] The paragraph "Exhibitions and honors" is based on information from the corresponding Catalan Wikipedia article.

[4] Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Cultura: Arxiu Comarcal Garrotxa (records, documents and pictures by and about Ramon Barnadas). Retrieved January 21, 2018 (Catalan).