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Claudi Lorenzale i Sugrañes (; 8 December 1814 – 31 March 1889) was a
@ Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana website where he also received the first prize for painting. Upon his return to Barcelona in 1844, he began a career devoted to artistic purity, inspired by Medieval art and the teachings of Overbeck. In pursuit of that goal, he founded his own Academy, which became widely known. His prestige as a teacher reached its peak in 1851 when he was named an associate professor of the graduate school at the Escola. The following year, he became a full Professor and, in 1858, he became the Director, a post he filled until 1885. He retired from the academy three years later, and died in Barcelona, aged 74. Among his best-known students were
Origen de l'escut del comtat de Barcelona de Lorenzale.jpg, Origin of the Escutcheon of the
Josep Masriera y Manovens, “En el Círculo” (necrological text about Claudi Lorenzale), ''La Vanguardia'', May 14, 1889, p. 1
Paintings by Lorenzale
in the Catalog of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzale, Claudi 1816 births 1889 deaths Painters from Catalonia Nazarene movement People from Barcelona 19th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish people of Italian descent 19th-century German male artists
Claudi Lorenzale i Sugrañes (; 8 December 1814 – 31 March 1889) was a Spanish
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painter, associated with the German Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...
and local efforts to recover the history of the Catalan region.
Biography
He was born inBarcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
. His father was a hatter
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Historically, milliners, typically women shopkeepers, produced or imported an inventory of g ...
of Italian origin. He began to study painting in Murcia
Murcia (, , ) is a city in south-eastern Spain, the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia, and the seventh largest city in the country. It has a population of 460,349 inhabitants in 2021 (about one ...
at the age of twelve and, after 1830, was enrolled at the Escola de la Llotja
The Escola de la Llotja (, "Llotja School"; es, Escuela de la Lonja), officially the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Barcelona (Barcelona Arts and Crafts School), is an art and design school located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The school took its ...
in Barcelona, where he studied under Pelegrí Clavé
Pelegrí Clavé i Roqué sometimes Pelegrin Clavé (17 June 1811, Barcelona – 13 September 1880, Barcelona) was a Spanish painter in the Romantic style who lived and taught in Mexico for many years.
Biography
From 1822 to 1833, he studie ...
and was awarded the first prize in painting for his work "Sísara derrotat per Barac" (The Defeat of Sisera
Sisera ( he, סִיסְרָא ''Sîsərā'') was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, who is mentioned in of the Hebrew Bible. After being defeated by the forces of the Israelite tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali under the com ...
by Barak
Barak ( or ; he, בָּרָק; Tiberian Hebrew: '' Bārāq''; ar, البُراق ''al-Burāq'' "lightning") was a ruler of Ancient Israel. As military commander in the biblical Book of Judges, Barak, with Deborah, from the Tribe of Ephrai ...
), in 1837. That same year, he travelled to Rome, accompanied by fellow painter Pau Milà (a follower of the Nazarene artist Friedrich Overbeck), and came under Overbeck's influence. He continued his education there at the Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fi ...
,Biography@ Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana website where he also received the first prize for painting. Upon his return to Barcelona in 1844, he began a career devoted to artistic purity, inspired by Medieval art and the teachings of Overbeck. In pursuit of that goal, he founded his own Academy, which became widely known. His prestige as a teacher reached its peak in 1851 when he was named an associate professor of the graduate school at the Escola. The following year, he became a full Professor and, in 1858, he became the Director, a post he filled until 1885. He retired from the academy three years later, and died in Barcelona, aged 74. Among his best-known students were
Marià Fortuny
Marià Josep Maria Bernat Fortuny i Marsal (; es, Mariano José María Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal; June 11, 1838 – November 21, 1874), known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was the leading Spanish painter of his day, with an ...
, Antoni Caba and Tomàs Padró.
County of Barcelona
The County of Barcelona ( la, Comitatus Barcinonensis, ca, Comtat de Barcelona) was originally a frontier region under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty. In the 10th century, the Counts of Barcelona became progressively independent, here ...
(1844)
(Barcelona) Retrat de la dona i els fills del pintor - Claudi Lorenzale - Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.jpg, ''Portrait of the painter's wife and children'' - Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (, English: "National Art Museum of Catalonia"), abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina M ...
References
Further reading
* DDAA. ''La col·lecció Raimon Casellas''. Publication of MNAC/ Museo del Prado, 1992. . (Cataglog of an exhibition held at thePalau Nacional
The ( Catalan for ‘National Palace’) is a building on the hill of Montjuïc in Barcelona. It was the main site of the 1929 International Exhibition. It was designed by Eugenio Cendoya and Enric Catà under the supervision of Pere Domènech ...
from July 28 to September 20, 1992)
* Montserrat Gumà,(ed.) ''Guia del Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya''. Barcelona: Publicacions del MNAC, 2004.
* Enciclopèdia Espasa, Vol. 67, pg. 1560
Josep Masriera y Manovens, “En el Círculo” (necrological text about Claudi Lorenzale), ''La Vanguardia'', May 14, 1889, p. 1
External links
Paintings by Lorenzale
in the Catalog of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzale, Claudi 1816 births 1889 deaths Painters from Catalonia Nazarene movement People from Barcelona 19th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish people of Italian descent 19th-century German male artists