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 Source - V. Balaguer Museum)
Funerary sculpture:
Albareda Tomb
(Southwest Cemetery in Barcelona)
Batllo Batllo Tomb
(Southwest Cemetery in Barcelona 1889)
Cazes-Clavell Tomb (Southwest Cemetery in Barcelona 1897 - in contribution with
Reynés)
Carreras Tomb
(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)
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Life:
Born in Barcelona in
1850, he initially trained in the school of Llotja in Barcelona with the
master Rosend Nobas, and also worked as apprentice in the studio of Joan
Roig i Soler.
Fuxà subsequently studied in Paris, where he worked in the studio of
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, seeking artistic improvement and
acquiring a greater control of technique. He also spent time in Italy.
After his return to Barcelona, at the age of 26 in 1876, he was named
Reader in the same school of Llotja where he initially studied, and
later became its director between 1911 and 1920.
Fuxà was also appointed as the President of the Barcelona Museums
Council.
His artistic output was prodigious; according to Felix Mestres i Borrell
he was the most prolific sculptor of this period. He produced many
public monuments in Barcelona, as well as in other cities and towns in
Catalonia, including Alella, Figueres, Mataró, Reus, Sabadell, Sant
Feliu de Guíxols, Vilafranca del Penedès,
Vilanova i la Geltrú and
Sitges, and received
commissions for work in cities outwith Catalonia, such as Gijón, Madrid,
Montevideo and Ourense.
He also executed funerary monuments for cemeteries in Barcelona and
Sitges, portrait busts, and sculpture for buildings. Although the latter
was conventional in style, it was nevertheless always of the highest
artistic quality, Fuxà was perhaps an impersonal artist, but at the same
time an excellent executor capable of carrying out a great quantity of
assignments.
His style cannot be classified strictly within the
Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau)
idiom because his work is much more classical in feeling, following the
school of the brothers
Venanci and
Agapit Vallmitjana,
but the influences of Modernism cannot be denied - Felix Elies relates
him to the Overbeck school and Pubis de Chavannes - especially in the
middle and latter periods of his career.
Some of the monuments he produced were probably developed in
collaboration with other artists, such as the architect Pere Falqués i
Urpí - Monument to Rius i Taulet - and Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas
(1848-1910), who was also a premodernista (previous to Catalan Art
Nouveau) sculptor - Monuments to Aribau and Clavé.
Fuxà’s work is related to the Renaixença (a period with a strong
cultural development in Catalonia) and he therefore contributed to the
recovery of the Catalonian identity.
Manel Fuxà died in Barcelona in the year 1927.
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Study of a man symbolizing
‘Industry’ - Monument to Rius i Taulet, a Mayor of Barcelona |
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