Monday, September 23, 2013

Josep de Togores




Artist Josep de Togores
Sardañola del Vallés , Barcelona , July 19, 1893 - Barcelona , June 17, 1970





Josep de Togores was a painter Spanish .Son of Josep de Togores i Muntades, president of the Association of Barcelona Football Clubs and co-founder of the newspaper El Mundo Deportivo , at age 13 suffers Togores meningitis and remains deaf , which led him to become interested in painting. He began his artistic training with Joan Llaverias and Felix Mestres . Thanks to a grant from the City of Barcelona , in 1907 goes to Paris , where he came into contact with the work of Paul Cézanne . In Brussels paints a picture ( The Crazy Cerdanyola ) which is awarded at the International Exposition celebrating the city. Later stage begins impressionist in his work. Back in Catalonia , Togores becomes part of Courbet Group of Barcelona, ​​and after the First World War he returned to Paris, where he came into contact with the surrealism through his relationship with artists such as Georges Braque , Aristides Maillol , Max Jacob or Picasso , arriving to sign an exclusive contract with this dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler , until 1931 . This will be your most surreal and experimental period. During the 1920s becoming known in Europe , and during the following years exploring different styles such as Cubism or scholarship , leaving influenced by the avant-garde of the time and getting to have influences of classicism . In 1932 , again in Barcelona, ​​dealer changes, beginning his relationship with Francesc Cambo and empenzando to paint portraits of Catalan high society. He died in 1970 due to a traffic accident.

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