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)
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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.
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