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MANEL FUXÀ I LEAL   (1850-1927)

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• On Manel Fuxà:  Biography   Works: In Catalonia  Funerary_sculpture:  Out of Catalonia   Images
Sources and additional information:  Links   Bibliography   Other Catalan Art Nouveau Sculptors

Works:

In Catalonia:
In Barcelona:
L' Escolà - The altar boy - (1870)
The death of the just one
(1876)
The sign of the cross
(1881)
Neptune
(Ciutadella Park-Waterfall
  1881) 
Leda (Ciutadella Park-Waterfall 1881)
Saint Francisco of Assísi (1892)
Aribau
(Ciutadella Park 1884)
Clavé (Sant Joan Promenade 1888)
Bernat Desclot
(vanished Statue
  1888) 

Rius i Taulet
(Lluís Companys
  Promenade) 

Fra Bernat Boïl
(Monument to
  Columbus - Porta de la Pau -Gate of
  Peace- 1888) 
Law Courts  (Passeig Ll. Companys)
   (3 relief's) :
   The Catalonia statutes 
   The "Consulat del Mar"
(Sea laws
   of Barcelona)
   Placement of the 1st stone of the
       Palace
   (4 of the 48 sculptures) : 
   Josep Finestres 
   Pablo de Castro
   José Moñino 
   Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

Various Works in the
  Monastery of Pompeia
 
  (Diagonal Av./Riera S. Miquel)
Estalvi - Savings - (La Caixa - Via
   Laietana) 

Post Office
 (Via Laietana/ P. Colom)
  (4 statues) :
  The Navy 
  The Science 
  The Telegraph 
  The Mail
 
Sant Jaume
- Saint James - (Caixa
   Provincial -Plaza Sant Jaume) 

Jaume I
- James the I A Catalan king -
  (City Hall Barcelona - Lounge of Cent)

Sant Jordi
- Saint George - (City Hall
  Barcelona - Lounge of Cent) 

Bust of Víctor Balaguer
 
(Ciutadella Park 1910) 
Bust of Manuel Milà i Fontanals 
(Ciutadella Park)
Bust of Pere Pau Muntanyà

  (Parliament 1915)
Bust of Elies Rogent
(Parliament)
Bust of Marcelino Menendez
  Pelayo
 
Bust of Pepita Teixidor i
  Torres 
(Ciutadella Park 1917) 
Bust of Joaquim Vayreda

 
(Ciutadella Park) 
Bust of Joaquim Vayreda 
  (Parliament) 
Bust of Manuel Planas i Casals
  (Diputació - Country Council Offices) 
Bust of Jacint Verdaguer

 
(Ateneu Barcelonés - Barcelona
   literary Society)
Neptune (Espanya Industrial Park)
The Agriculture
(Diagonal Av./ T.C.
  Valenzuela Street)

In Sabadell:
Monument to Pere Turull
(Caixa
  of Sabadell - Sabadell Savings Bank)

In Vilanova i the Geltrú:
Bishop Armanyà
(Francesc
  Armanyà i Font - V. Balaguer Museum)

Funerary sculpture:
Albareda Pantheon
(Southwest
  Cemetery in Barcelona) 

Batllo Batllo Pantheon

  (Southwest Cemetery in Barcelona
  1889)  
 
Cazes-Clavell Pantheon
 
 (Southwest Cemetery in Barcelona
 1897 - in contribution with Reynés) 

Carreras Pantheon
(Cemetery of
  Sitges) 

Out of Catalonia: 
Lope de Vega
(Façade of the National Library Madrid - Spain) 
Benito Jerónimo de Feijóo (Ourense - Galícia - Spain)
Melchor Gaspar de Jovellanos (Gijón - Spain)

 

 

 

Life:

Born in Barcelona in 1850. 
Initially trained in the school of Llotja in Barcelona with the master Rosend Nobas, he also worked as apprentice in the studio of Joan Roig i Soler.
Fuxà carry out subsequently periods of improvement in Paris, where he worked in the studio of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse acquiring a great control of the technique, and in Italy.
From his return to Barcelona, at the age of 26 years - in 1876 - he was named reader in the same school of Llotja where he studied and subsequently he was its director between 1911 and 1920.
Fuxà was the President of the Barcelona Museums Council.
His artistic production is very large, according to Felix Mestres i Borrell he is the most prolific sculptor of this period. He carried out a lot of public monuments in Barcelona and also in other cities and towns of Catalonia as Alella, Figueres, Mataró, Reus, Sabadell, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Vilafranca del Penedès, Vilanova i la Geltrú and Sitges as well as in cities out of Catalonia as Gijón, Madrid, Montevideo and Ourense.
He carried out diverse funerary monuments in Barcelona and Sitges, busts and a lot of works for buildings in a conventional style but of high artistic quality.
Fuxà was perhaps an impersonal creator, but at the same time an excellent executor capable to carry out a great quantity of assignments. His style cannot be classified strictly inside the Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau) because his work is quite more classical, following the school of the brothers Venanci and Agapit Vallmitjana, but surely, influences of that style cannot be denied - Felix Elies relates him to the Overbeck school and Pubis de Chavannes - specially in the central and final part of his work.
Some of the monuments he carried out, where probably developed with the contribution of other artists as the architect Pere Falqués i Urpí - Monument to Rius i Taulet - and Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas (1848-1910), also a premodernista (previous to Catalan Art Nouveau) sculptor - Monuments to Aribau and Clavé -.
The work of Fuxà is related to the Renaixença (a period with a strong cultural development in Catalonia) and he therefore collaborated to the recovery of the Catalonian identity.
Manel Fuxà died in Barcelona in the year 1927. 



Images:
 
Fuxà Aribau Statue Ciutadella Park Fuxà  Rius i Taulet Monument  Ll. Companys Promenade Fuxà  The bishop  (Museum V. Balaguer) Vilanova i la Geltru
Bonaventura C. Aribau
1884  Ciutadella Park
Francesc Rius i Taulet
1901 Ll. Companys Promenade
The Bishop Armanyà
Vilanova i la Geltrú 
Fuxà  Joaquim Vayreda  Ciutadella Park Fuxà  Milà i Fontanals  Ciutadella Park Fuxà  Pepita Teixidor  Ciutadella Park Fuxà  Víctor Balaguer Bust  Ciutadella Park
Joaquim Vayreda i Vila
1915 Ciutadella Park
Manel Milà i Fontanals
1908 Ciutadella Park
Pepita Teixidó
1917 Ciutadella Park
Víctor Balaguer
1910 Ciutadella Park
Funerary Sculpture:
 M. Fuxà  Sitges Cemetery  Carreras Pantheon 1907 
    Carreras Pantheon
  
1907 Sitges Cemetery

 

Out of Catalonia:

   Fuxà: Statue of G. M. de Jovellanos in Gijón - Spain
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
            Gijón - Spain
Source:
www.esculturaurbana.com

 

Selected LINKS to other websites on Manel Fuxà i Leal

http://www.publicacions.bcn.es/Bcn_escultures/autorsFrame.html Web of the Barcelona City Council, with colored photos of seventeen sculptures of Fuxà in public spaces of Barcelona.

 

Specific Bibliography on Manel Fuxà i Leal

Title Author Published by Year

 Guía del Cementerio de Montjuïc 

 Aguado, Neus

 Institut Municipal dels Serveis
 Funeraris de Barcelona

1993
 L'escultura catalana  Cirici i Pellicer   1957
 Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana  Different authors  Enciclopèdia Catalana
 Enciclopèdia Salvat Català  Different authors  Edicions Salvat
 Un siglo de escultura catalana  Infiesta, José Manuel    1975
 Diccionario bibliográfico de artistas de
 Cataluña
 Ràfols, J. F.   1953
 L'escultura del segle XIX a Catalunya  Subirachs i Burgaya, Judit  Publicacions de l'Abadia de
 Montserrat
1994
 
Other Catalan Art Nouveau Sculptors:

Eusebi ARNAU i Mascort   Miquel BLAY i Fabregues   Joan Carreres   Enric Clarasó i Daudí   Lambert Escaler i Milà   Manel FUXÀ i Leal   Pau GARGALLO i Catalán   Alfons Juyol i Bach   Josep LLIMONA i Bruguera   Agustí Querol   Josep Reynés i Gurguí   Agapit VALLMITJANA i Barbany    VenancI VALLMITJANA i Barbany

 

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