style: Realism

Fishing at the beach

One of the first painters to approach landscape directly from nature, en plein air. He started from rural naturalism at the workshop of his master, Ramon Martí Alsina, with whom he would remain friends, but he progressively stripped away the superfluous elements from the landscape, gradually evolving towards a freer, lighter and more modern approach.

Around Montornès del Vallès

The landscape depicts a small forest, a path, a row of trees, some farmland and a mountain ridge. The composition is divided into two parts, the lower half with the road and vegetation and the upper half with the cloudy sky. In his pictorial language, the painter of this period moves away from the most […]

Rural street

A rural street, it is believed to be a street in Castell d’Empordà or Santa Pau, which would link him to his land of origin from where he would leave young due to poverty and problems with a stepmother. Under his brush, this rural street approach presents itself to us as a self-contained theme. It […]

Camprodón

Interior of a country house

Benet Mercadé was from Emporda, the son of a decorative painter, gilder and votive painter. He trained at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona – where he was appointed professor in 1882 – and the School of Fine Arts San Fernando in Madrid. He started as an ornamental painter and worked with daguerreotypes. He […]

Montserrat

Raurich trained at the Llotja School with the professors Antoni Caba, Lluís Rigalt and Eliseu Meifrèn. Between 1894 and 1899 he settled in Rome, and when he returned he decided that he would always paint landscapes in Catalonia, calling the series: Visions Mediterrànies. The writers who knew or lived with the work of the impressionists […]

Landscape

A landscape painter in the naturalist style, many of his works depict landscapes of the Montseny mountain range.

Landscape

Domingo Soler was a stage designer and painter known mainly for his landscapes and watercolours. His peaceful and pleasant landscapes, painted with a very controlled pallet, depict reality from a post-romantic perspective, with a certain lyricism and great serenity.

Vall de Núria

He often painted Montesquiu and the river Freser, at night and day, from one bank or the other. Over a period of more than 30 years, he spent many summers in this area, sometimes in the company of other painters. He also painted mountains, particularly the nooks and valleys of Núria, to which he had […]

Countryside road