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Works:
In
Catalonia:
In
Barcelona:
The prodigal son (1880)
Roman patrician
(1880)
Ramon Berenguer
el Gran
(Ramon Berenguer Square 1880)
Recompense
(Frieze on Triumph
Arch 1888)
Relief's on Columbus Monument
(Five
relief's of the eight existing ones)
Columbus appearing to Kings
Columbus in the Council of Salamanca
The kings accepting his project
Disembarkation of Columbus in Barcelona (1888)
Florentine Page
(1890)
Modesty (Museum of Modern Art 1891)
Virgin of Roser
(1892)
The first communion (Museum of
Modern Art 1897)
The man
guiding the force (1899)
Desconsol
(Distress -
Ciutadella Park 1907)
The Idyll
Saint Josef (Tympanum of the Condal
School, Amadeu Vives street 1907)
Monument to Dr. Robert (Tetuàn
square 1903-1910)
Virgin (Chapel Jesus and Maria -
Fabra i Puig Promenade 1910)
Verge de la Mercé (Virgin
of Favor - Reproduction of a relief in the Church of
Pompeia - Diagonal Avenue / Riera S. Miquel 1910)
Divine shepherd
(Reproduction of a relief in the
Church of Pompeia - Diagonal Avenue / Riera S. Miquel 1910)
The ascent of Maria
(Reproduction of
a relief in the
Church of Pompeia - Diagonal Avenue / Riera S. Miquel 1910)
Saint Francis
(High-relief on
Pompeia Church Façade - Avda. Diagonal / Riera S. Miquel 1910)
Catalonia and sciences
(1912)
The descent from the cross
(Destroyed during civil war 1936/39 -
1912)
Figure of Woman (1912)
Figure of Woman (1913)
Statue of
Casañas Cardinal
(Chapel of Saint Josef Oriol into the Cathedral
1913)
Virgin with boy and other figures
(Bas-relief 1913)
Youth or Water nymph
(Museum of Modern Art 1913)
The Blacksmith
(Catalunya Square,
replica in the Trade Exhibition Area 1930)
Love to the
childhood (Park of Montjuïc - Escola
del Bosc 1914)
La Purísima
Concepció (The
Virgin - Church of the Sagrada
Família - Holy Family - 1915) Holy Heart
(Church of the Sagrada Família - Holy Family -1915)
Virgin (School of the
Holy Heart in Sarrià 1915)
Base of the monument to Rafael
de Casanova (Ronda
Sant Pere 1916)
Saint George
(Honor staircase of City hall 1916)
Insomnia
(Private Collection
1917)
Picture of Carles G. Vidiella (Palau
Hall of Music 1917)
Small statue (Museum of Modern Art
1917)
The burial of Christ
(Cloister Chapel
of Cathedral 1920)
Sant Jordi (1920)
The
source (Private Collection 1921)
Sant Jordi
(Saint George -
Esplanada de l'oest Park of Montjuïc 1924)
Maternity (Private
Collection 1924)
Kneel down Woman (1924)
Standing up Figure (1924)
Seated Figure (1924)
Shepherd (1924)
Adolescent
(Private
Collection 1924)
The beauty
(Dante Square - Montjuïc 1924)
Youth (Private Collection 1924)
Nude of seated woman
(1924)
Nude of seated woman (1925)
Holy Heart (1925)
Holy Heart (Relief 1925)
Monument to the Martyrs of
Independence
(In collaboration with V. Navarro i Romero - Garriga i Bachs square)
Meditation (1925)
Head of boy
(Private Collection
1927)
Portrait of Doctor
Ferràn (Private
Collection 1929)
Statue B
(Pedralbes Palace 1929)
Woman (Park of Montjuïc -
Stairs to National Palace 1929)
Woman (Park of Montjuïc -
Cascades square 1929)
Saint George (City
hall 1929)
The Bath (Modern
Art Museum 1930)
Maternity (1930)
The son
(Private 1930)
The flowers (Stairs of the Park
of Montjuïc 1930)
Cordèlia (Private Collection 1930)
Lassitude (1930)
Saint Martin
(1930)
The Student
In Montserrat:
Consumatum est (1896)
Figure of woman
(Monumental Rosary - Mystery of glory 1903)
Tomb
Figure
(monumental Rosary - Mystery of glory 1903)
Christ raised again (in collaboration
with Gaudí - monumental Rosary 1914)
In Sabadell:
The Virtue (Caixa d'estalvis
de Sabadell Savings Bank 1910)
In Sant Julià
de Vilatorta:
Jesus and the children (Relief in the
tympanum of
the Chapel of the School of orphans 1904)
In Tarragona:
The
kiss of Judas (Cathedral 1929)
In Terrassa:
Portrait of an
industrialist
(Museum
Vallparadís 1892)
Monument to Bartomeu
Amat
(Gardens of Industrial School 1909)
In Vic:
Seated woman
(Monument
to the
founder of the Monastery of Carmelites
1914)
In Vilafranca del
Penedès:
Saint Sepulchre (Saint
Mary Basilica Crypt 1916)
Funerary
sculpture:
Pantheons in
Barcelona
Angel (Torres
Pantheon - Southwest Cemetery 1900)
Angel (Alomar-Estrany
Pantheon - Southwest Cemetery 1900)
Resignation
(Rialp Pantheon 1901)
Desconsol
(Distress - A dressed variant - M. Casas de Vilanova Pantheon -
Southwest Cemetery 1903)
Grief and resignation
(Southwest Cemetery 1903)
Angel
(Campesol
y Rosell Pantheon - Southwest Cemetery)
Woman
(Horta Cemetery 1904)
Angel (Llopart
Pantheon - Southwest Cemetery 1905)
Sant Jordi (M. Granell
Pantheon Southwest Cemetery 1928)
Pantheons
in Arenys de Mar (Maresme)
Mundet Pantheon (1901)
Massaguer Pantheon
Pantheon in Masnou
(Maresme)
The faith comforting the
grief
(Pere Grau Pantheon 1901)
Pantheon in Roses
(Alt Empordà)
A Pray
(1903)
Pantheons in Sitges
Dr. Robert Pantheon (1903)
Woman
(Cros i Juliana Pantheon 1912)
Out
of Catalonia:
Saint Nicholas and the
fisherman
(Tympanum
of S. Nicholas Church - Bilbao 1897)
Pantheon in
Portugalete
(Vizcaya):
Crucified Christ
(Manuel Calvo Pantheon 1911)
Chopitea Pantheon
(Buenos Aires Cemetery 1927)
The fountain (Public
gardens in Buenos Aires 1929)
The
Angel (Comillas
Cemetery Cantabria - Spain -)
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Life:
Llimona
is the greatest Art Nouveau (Modernista)
Catalonian sculptor.
Born in Barcelona in the year 1864.
He was trained in the Llotja of Barcelona, in the atelier of Venanci and
Agapit Vallmitjana brothers and
also under the mastering of Rosend Nobas.
In 1880 he won the "Fortuny pension" (an award granted by the
Barcelona City Council in memory of the great Catalonian painter Marià
Fortuny, to help artists to improve his capabilities) and went to Rome. During
his stay in Italy, he received the influence of the Florentine Renaissance sculpture and carried out two
obligatory works: Roman Patrician and Ramon Berenguer
el Gran.
His style is characterized by a naturalistic idealism and by the flavor of the
picturesqueness.
Infiesta distinguishes in the work of Llimona five periods:
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Period |
Denomination |
Characteristics |
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1864
- 1895 |
Learning |
Works
still in academic style |
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1895
- 1909 |
Art Nouveau |
Female
figures, pantheons, dressed maidens |
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1909
- 1913 |
Transition |
Religious
statues, virgins, Christ's |
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1913
- 1925 |
Full
maturity |
Heroes
(Saint George, The Blacksmith), nude maidens |
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1925
- 1934 |
Serenity |
Classic
female nudes |
The first works still in academic
style, show us a typical and historic series of personages of the country as the already cited equestrian statue of
"Ramon Berenguer el Gran" (a count of Barcelona - 1890), a
frieze on the Triumph Arch of Barcelona named "Recompense"
and the "Modesty" (1891).
He founded jointly with
his brother the painter Josep Llimona, the "Centre Artístic de Sant Lluc"
(Artistic Center of Saint Luke), a Catalonian artistic religious association - both they
were deeply believer - at present a prestigious institution in artistic
circles in Barcelona.
But late, their style derived towards
a fully Art Nouveau ( modernista) models with influences of Rodin and Meunier.
"The first communion"
(1897), the famous "Desconsol"
(Distress - 1907) - Prize of Honor of the International Exposition of Fine
Arts celebrated the same year in Barcelona - located at present in front
of the Parliament of Catalonia and "The Idyll", belongs to this
period.
From 1900 he begins to sculpt its famous female nudes of a great elegance,
veiled eroticism and smooth melancholy that he will develop as one of the most noticeable elements of
his work.
In 1914 he creates its impressive "Christ resurrected" for the monumental Rosary of Montserrat in contribution with Gaudí.
Llimona combines the tenderness and the virile force in works as "The student"
- one of the master works of the Catalonian sculpture -, in the "Monument
to Doctor Robert" ( Tetuàn square of Barcelona) and also in the equestrian statue of
Sant Jordi (Saint George) in the Park of Montjuïc of Barcelona.
The genius of Llimona was declared also in other fields as the
funerary sculpture with works as the pantheons of the Southwest cemetery of Barcelona and the cemeteries of
Arenys de Mar,
Sitges and in other
places, so much in Catalonia as outside.
Josep Llimona also emphasized in his activities as designer of medals.
Besides in Barcelona and other
towns of Catalonia, Llimona carried out exhibitions in Madrid, Brussels,
Paris and Buenos Aires and Rosario in Argentina.
Llimona was the President of the "Junta de Museus de Barcelona"
(Barcelona Museums Council) from 1918 to 1924 and again since 1931 to his death in 1934.
Llimona was decorated by the
governments of France and Italy, and was the first person in receiving the
Gold Medal of the city of Barcelona in 1932, due to his extraordinary work in the development of
museums activity.
Josep Llimona i Bruguera, died in Barcelona in the year 1934.
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Images:
Funerary sculpture
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Cemetery of Sitges: |
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Massaguer pantheon |
Mundet pantheon |
Two views of R. Camps
pantheon |
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