Claudi Lorenzale i Sugrañes (; 8 December 1814 – 31 March 1889) was a

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painter, associated with the German

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and local efforts to recover the history of the Catalan region.

Biography

He was born in

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. His father was a

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of Italian origin. He began to study painting in

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at the age of twelve and, after 1830, was enrolled at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona, where he studied under Pelegrí Clavé and was awarded the first prize in painting for his work "Sísara derrotat per Barac" (The Defeat of

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), 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

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@ 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

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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, Antoni Caba and Tomàs Padró. Origen de l'escut del comtat de Barcelona de Lorenzale.jpg, Origin of the Escutcheon of the

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Paintings by Lorenzale
in the Catalog of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorenzale, Claudi 1814 births 1889 deaths Painters from Catalonia Nazarene movement Painters from Barcelona 19th-century Spanish painters Spanish male painters Spanish people of Italian descent 19th-century German male artists

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