The Catalan painter and caricaturist Isidre Nonell i Monturiol was born in Barcelona in 1872. His father owned a pasta shop. Although he would have liked to see Isidre as the successor to his shop, he financed his son's artistic passion for a long time, as his income from painting and drawing was small. From an early age, Isidre practiced his drawing talent together with his childhood friend and later painter of the postmodern Joaquim Mir. He received the actual training with several artists in Barcelona. So he first painted fruits and flowers at Josep Mirabent and then changed to the school of Gabriel Martinez Altés.
Inside Isidre Nonell there was a special talent and interest that was awakened when he met Lluís Graner. Graner often worked with people on the fringes of society, modelling for the poor. Impressed by the subject matter, Isidre began to paint such pictures himself, and a critical view of society and a penchant for caricature spread. His first documented painting "The Courtyard" dates from this period. After the subsequent visit to the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona together with Mir, Nonell worked from 1894 for the newspaper La Vanguardia and supplied it with illustrations and caricatures. As it was usual for many artists of that time, a stay in Paris followed. In 1902, some of his works were exhibited in Barcelona and literally torn apart. The bourgeois public and the critics serving it rejected the themes and the form of representation of his pictures, they did not correspond to the desired aesthetics. Isidre Nonell continued to paint unperturbed, he was also not interested in discussions with critics. Finally, he was successful when the Faianç Català Gallery launched his first and highly acclaimed solo exhibition in 1910. He died of typhus at the age of only 38. One of his most famous oil paintings is "Estudi, o Repòs" (1908), which shows a reclining woman and documents Nonell's ability to convey moods through his drawings.
The Catalan painter and caricaturist Isidre Nonell i Monturiol was born in Barcelona in 1872. His father owned a pasta shop. Although he would have liked to see Isidre as the successor to his shop, he financed his son's artistic passion for a long time, as his income from painting and drawing was small. From an early age, Isidre practiced his drawing talent together with his childhood friend and later painter of the postmodern Joaquim Mir. He received the actual training with several artists in Barcelona. So he first painted fruits and flowers at Josep Mirabent and then changed to the school of Gabriel Martinez Altés.
Inside Isidre Nonell there was a special talent and interest that was awakened when he met Lluís Graner. Graner often worked with people on the fringes of society, modelling for the poor. Impressed by the subject matter, Isidre began to paint such pictures himself, and a critical view of society and a penchant for caricature spread. His first documented painting "The Courtyard" dates from this period. After the subsequent visit to the Escola de Belles Arts de Barcelona together with Mir, Nonell worked from 1894 for the newspaper La Vanguardia and supplied it with illustrations and caricatures. As it was usual for many artists of that time, a stay in Paris followed. In 1902, some of his works were exhibited in Barcelona and literally torn apart. The bourgeois public and the critics serving it rejected the themes and the form of representation of his pictures, they did not correspond to the desired aesthetics. Isidre Nonell continued to paint unperturbed, he was also not interested in discussions with critics. Finally, he was successful when the Faianç Català Gallery launched his first and highly acclaimed solo exhibition in 1910. He died of typhus at the age of only 38. One of his most famous oil paintings is "Estudi, o Repòs" (1908), which shows a reclining woman and documents Nonell's ability to convey moods through his drawings.
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