Vicenç Solé i Jorba

Vicenç Solé i Jorba (born December 6, 1904 in Olot , † August 16, 1946 in El Brull ) was a Catalan painter who was in the tradition of the School of Olot .

life and work

In 1915 Vicenç Solé i Jorba entered the Escola de Belles Arts d'Olot and studied with Celestí Devesa , Martí Casadevall and Iu Pascual . Iu Pascual shaped him artistically very intensively. In 1922 he exhibited for the first time in Barcelona in the Sala Parés . Since 1926 he has been present there with an exhibition every year, as well as in La Pinacoteca in Barcelona and in the Sala Vayreda in Olot. In 1930 he won a second prize in a poster competition promoting tourism in the Garrotxa .

Since 1915 Solé i Jorba also worked in El Arte Cristiano de Olot (workshop for religious folk art) and painted sculptures there. During this time he suffered from the fact that he could not do enough artistically and painterly. He gave up this opportunity to earn money around 1930 after he was able to live off the sale of his paintings. In 1935 he became professor at the Escola Menor de Belles Arts i Oficis in Olot on the basis of a competition and succeeded the late Celestí Devesa. In 1939 he became a professor at the Escola de Belles Arts in Olot.

Solé-Jorba was an outstanding landscape painter from the Olot School. In terms of color connotations, he was in a line of tradition with Enric Galwey and Josep Olivet i Legares . In terms of painting technique, however, he was strongly influenced by Iu Pascual. The aesthetic orientation of his works was highly valued by the Catalan bourgeoisie. From 1933 he went beyond pure landscape painting and also created colorful, scenic pictures with market, town and rural scenes. During this time he also created gentle, sensitive, colorful portraits. His works are of emotional beauty and intense coloring. He is rightly counted among the best Catalan landscape painters. Works by Vicenç Solé i Jorba can be seen in the Col·lecció Garreta-Rovira in Mollet del Vallès and in the Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa in Olot.

From 1944 onwards, Vicenç Solé i Jorba had physical difficulties that severely hindered his painting. He was then treated for tuberculosis . For the last two years of his life he went to a sanatorium for treatment and cure, where he died in August 1946. Vicenç Solé i Jorba was an artist with significant development potential that could not be realized due to his early death.

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• Vicenç Soler i Jorba. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . Enciclopèdia Catalana, accessed June 23, 2020 (Catalan). 
• Joan Sala Plana: Vicenç Solé Jorba. In: Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved June 23, 2020 (Spanish). 
• Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (Editor): Vicenç Solé Jorba. Olot, 2004. Dipòsit Legal GI-108/05. (Photo book with a preface by Lluís Sacrest i Villegas (Mayor of Olot) and an introductory article by Alexandre Cuéllar in Catalan, approx. 100 unnumbered pages)

Web links

• Literature by and about Vicenç Solé i Jorba in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Vicenç Solér i Jorba. In: de.todocoleccion.net. Archived from the original on June 23, 2020 ; accessed on June 23, 2020 (Spanish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Vicenç Solér i Jorba. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Vicenç Solér i Jorba. In: de.todocoleccion.net.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Vicenç Solér i Jorba. In: Real Acemia de la Historia.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Alexandre Cuéllar: Vicenç Solé i Jorba. In: Vicenç Coromina i Bartrina (ed.): Illustrated book.