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Works:
In Barcelona:
Manuel Llopis House
Gallissà House (Gignàs Street)
De la Riva House
In Cervelló:
Parish house
Sant Esteve Church
García Farm
In Esplugues de
Llobregat:
Can Casanovas
Pujol House
In La
Garriga:
Pascual House
In Lloret de Mar:
Arús House
In El Papiol:
Gomis House
In Vilassar de Mar:
Arús House
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Biography:
Born in Barcelona in 1861.
Graduated in the School of Architecture of Barcelona - of he later was a
professor - in the year 1885.
He collaborated intensely with
Lluís Domènech i Montaner,
with whom he carried out works as the "Castell dels tres dragons" (The castle of
the three dragons) at present Museum of Zoology in Barcelona, where he was
responsible for the workshop, the Palau de la Música
Catalana (Catalonian Music Palace) and other buildings.
Also he collaborated with other important architects of his epoch as Elies
Rogent and Josep Maria Jujol.
The architecture of Gallissà is characterized for a personal and new style
supported in the past of the national Catalan architecture and especially in the
rural style of the ancestral houses and the "masias" (typical rural house of
Catalonia). In the Manuel Llopis House in Barcelona, the Arabic influence is
also visible.
As many of the artists of that period, he also developed a political activity
inside the field of the Catalanism, participating in the edition of the "Bases
of Manresa", a document in which the national Catalonian demands were collected
during the period of the Renaixença (a XIXth century period with a strong
recovery of Catalan national arts and culture), from his position as president of the "Unió
Catalanista" (a Catalanist conservative political party).
Antoni Maria Gallissà dies in Barcelona at the age of 42 years, the year 1903,
breaking a brilliant career with a very interesting work carried out, and the expectation of
more brilliant executions.
Architecture:
This is his main activity and he developed it, following the plans of his master
Lluís Domènech i Montaner, combining a very refined technique with an exhaustive
taste for decoration.
He takes advantage of this aspect to reaffirm the national spirit of Catalonia,
in the line that his teacher had marked with his work "En busca
d’una arquitectura
nacional" (In search of a national
architecture).
Design:
Gallissà dedicated a very important effort to other aspects that were not
exclusively architectural. Because of it he is also known by his designs of
furniture, ornamentation, mosaics, graffito's and other themes far away of the
architecture as the design of flags and banners, historic writings of
investigation, etc.
Inside this chapter we can cite a series of important executions as the
ornamentation and lighting of the street Ferran of Barcelona that he carried out
in 1902 - a year before his death - inspired in designs of medieval floor tiles,
that he was also collector. The design of the banner of the Orfeó Català (The
most important Catalan Choral society) is also his work.
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