Ramon Rogent

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Ramon Rogent i Perés (born February 21, 1920 in Barcelona , Spain , † October 30, 1958 in Plan-d'Orgon , France ) was a Catalan painter , illustrator and sculptor .

Life

Ramon Rogent came from the Catalan artist and intellectual family Rogent in Barcelona. His great-uncle was the architect Elies Rogent i Amat (1821–1897), his father was the Ramon Llull specialist Elies Rogent i Massó (1893–1924). During the Spanish Civil War he studied architecture at the Escola Llotja in Barcelona, ​​but without a degree. He was encouraged to paint by the Catalan painter Rafael Llimona i Benet (1896–1957). From 1938 to 1939 he stayed in France. He had his first exhibition in Madrid in 1941. An exhibition followed in Barcelona in 1942 and again, together with Albert Fabra and Picasso's nephews, the brothers José Vilató (alias Fin ) and Javier Vilató , an important exhibition in 1943. He was initially inclined to Cubism and was a follower of Henri Matisse and Fauvism . Rogent became known for his landscape paintings and sculptures.

In 1945 he founded the artist group Le Cercle Maillol , one of the first avant-garde post-war artist groups in Catalonia, and in 1949/50 the artist group Lais , with which he published the first Black Manifesto . In 1945 and 1947 he was invited to Portugal, where he exhibited at the Museu de Lisboa , followed by exhibitions at the Salon d'Art Libre in Paris in 1948, in London, Pittsburgh and at the Triennale in Milan.

Rogent was considered an influential art teacher. He died in a car accident after returning from a visit to Pablo Picasso .

In 1984 the Center Cultural del Palau de la Virreina in Barcelona held a retrospective. In 1996 there was an exhibition in the Sala d'Art Artur Ramon gallery in Barcelona.

literature

  • Tomo 3: Barcelona, ​​Ed. Catalanes SA. (Ed.): Diccionario "Rafols" de Artistas Contemporáneos de Cataluña y Baleares 1989, ISBN 84-86719-14-3 .
  • Rogent, Ramón . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 6 , supplements H-Z . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1962, p. 381 .
  • Joan Vallès Altés: Ramon Rogent i el seu entorn. Pinzellades d'una vida. Ajuntament de Collbató, Abadia de Montserrat, Barcelona 2000, ISBN 84-8415-233-2 . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family tree in: Joan Vallès Altés: Ramon Rogent i el seu entorn. Barcelona 2000, pp. 24-25.
  2. ↑ Catalog Exponen R. Rogent, J. Fin, A. Fabra, J. Vilato. Galerías Reig, Barcelona 1943.
  3. ↑ a b Ramon Rogent i Perés in the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved October 7, 2015 (Catalan).
  4. ↑ Ramon Rogent. Center Cultural del Palau de la Virreina, March-April 1984. Ajuntament de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona 1984, ISBN 84-500-9760-6 . Exhibition catalog with chronology and bibliography, 111 pp.
  5. ↑ Ramon Rogent 1920–1958, del 19 de setembre al 26 d'octubre de 1996. Sala d'Art Artur Ramon, Barcelona 1996. Exhibition catalog.
  6. ↑ Sala d'Art 1986-2001. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 7, 2015 (Catalan). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arturamon.com
personal data
SURNAME Rogent, Ramon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rogent i Perés, Ramon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan painter, illustrator and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1958
Place of death Plan-d'Orgon , France