Landscape

Olot

He taught for many years at the Artistic Centre and School of Fine Arts of Olot, and he formed a group of enthusiastic landscape artists, the beginnings of what at that time was the revolutionary Olot School of landscape painting. Although it was created by Vayreda, Berga was the one to consolidate and popularise the […]

Prats de Santa Coloma, Andorra [Meadows in Santa Coloma]

In 1932, he made the first of his three visits to Andorra. He arrived by car to Santa Coloma, accompanied by his wife, son, driver and assistant. This oil painting is a good representation of his post-impressionist style. There are three almost parallel areas –the field, the mountain and the sky–, bright and contrasting greens, […]

Clouds

He went to Paris in 1892 and he began to associate with impressionist artists, leading to a change in his pictorial style. His colour pallet became lighter and he began using light blue, ochre and golden tones, starting to accentuate all the colours seen in the sea and rivers. He was continually drawn to the […]

Green Landscape

A professional decorative painter, by which he earned his living, his apprenticeship was almost self-taught. He went to Madrid in 1884 to study the Spanish painters of the Golden Age and, thanks to a recommendation from Elisenda Cerdà, daughter of the architect Ildefons Cerdà, he became a student of Carlos de Haes, the Belgian artist, […]

Valencian landscape

Forest figure

Influenced by the French naturalist school of the plein-air, inspired by idyllic romantic scenes within realistic elegant compositions, mainly genre scenes that had recently gained popularity. Due to his intellectual pursuits, he formed part of artistic and industrial societies and he was a leading and influential figure for painters and those around him. In 1915, […]

In 1848 he travelled to Paris, where he visited the Louvre and discovered the work of Eugène Delacroix and Gustave Courbet, the greatest international exponent of pictorial realism. In addition to creating, he also undertook important teaching work, following the precepts of French realist painters and the work of the Barbizon school. His innovative teaching […]

Campos de trigo en Verano [Wheat fields in the summer]

A restless painter in his observations and reflections on art, in tune with the painters of the Barbizon school, whom the artist had met on his travels in France. Also attracted by the work of Gustave Courbet, they made him evolve into a modern realism, which he introduced in Catalonia in his pedagogical system, going […]

Landscape

Modest Urgell was a disciple of Ramon Martí Alsina in Llotja and after the death of Lluís Rigalt, he was appointed professor of landscape at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. An inspiring teacher of other artists and an admired painter, he became a successful artist at a time when the showcase of art […]

Landscape

It is a pastoral narrative, as the composition lacks a main element or figure, leaving the landscape as the protagonist, representing an idealised and harmonious rural scene. In his landscapes, chiefly of the beech groves or wetland undergrowth around Olot, rural scenes interpreted in a very agile style imbued with the French “plein air”, he […]