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VENANCI VALLMITJANA I BARBANY   (1826-1919)

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• On Venanci Vallmitjana:  Biography   WorksSculpture  Funerary sculpture   Images
Sources and additional information:  Links   Bibliography   Other Catalan Art Nouveau Sculptors

Works:

Sculpture:
Evangelists
(Together with his brother Agapit
 Vallmitjana 1854) 

Sant Jordi
(Saint George 1861) 
Portrait of Lord Stanley and his
  wife
(1872)
The Agriculture
(Ciutadella Park in Barcelona 1886) 
The Marine
(Ciutadella Park in Barcelona 1886)
The Tradition
(1890) 
Alphonse X the Wise (Barcelona University)
Averroes (Barcelona University)
Baby
Bust of Benet Mercadé i Fàbregas 
(Catalonian Parliament in Barcelona)
Diana fountain (Gran Via/Llúria in Barcelona)
Fígaro
Lions (2) (Hall of Catalonian Government
  Palace) 
Lluís Vives (Barcelona University)
Manola
Monastery of Montserrat façade
  (Together with his brother Agapit)
Old lady portrait  (Barcelona City Hall first floor)
Ramon Llull (Barcelona University)
Saint Isidor
(Barcelona University)
Saint Venanci
Sketch for a statue to the queen Maria Cristina
Statue of Antoni López i López -
  Marquis of Comillas
-
 (P.Colom /
   Via Laietana in Barcelona)

The Muse of music (Gran Teatre del
  Liceu - Opera house - in Barcelona)
The Pietá
The Trinity

Virgin standing with the Christ-child
Virgin  lifting the Crist-child

Women (2)
(Urban Police building in Barcelona - attributed)
Young woman at the source

Funerary sculpture:
Pantheon
(Arenys de Mar Cemetery )

Portrait of Venanci Vallmitjana i Barbany
 

Life:
Born in Barcelona in 1826. 
He studied together with his brother Agapit in the School of Llotja in Barcelona as disciple of the famous Catalonian sculptor Damià Campeny. Being one of the most brilliant students, he received the prize of Llotja in 1844. 
To start his artistic carrier, he carries out small nativity scene clay figures together with his brother Agapit in a baroque style in an atelier in Tapinería street of Barcelona. 
Already in 1853, he carry out the statues of the evangelists for the Church of Sant Just of Barcelona. In 1856, he is named professor of Llotja and a little later he carries out the statues of the facade of the Bank of Barcelona. 
Being already a famous sculptor, his atelier in the chapel of Saint Àgata is visited by the most famous personages of the epoch that carry out substantial assignments. 
In 1872 he went with its brother Agapit to Manchester where they carried out the portraits of Lord Stanley and his wife. 
Subsequently he travels to Paris where its works were very well accepted. 
A significant part of his work is carried out in contribution with his brother, for which at times, it is difficult to attribute a work to one or another. Nevertheless, it is appreciated in the work of Venanci a greater flavor by the spectacularness. In general the studious consider of higher quality the work of Venanci, but ultimately this opinion is in doubt and a current exists that appreciates a greater formal perfection in the work of Agapit. 
So much Venanci as Agapit Vallmitjana should be considered academic sculptors of realist style and therefore previous to Modernisme (Catalan Art Nouveau), because the majority of its work is carried out before of this style emersion, but the fact that both where teachers of famous modernist sculptors as Llimona, Gargallo and other, gives them a special importance as precursors.
The death of his small brother Agapit in 1905 broke with the fertile common work. Venanci Vallitjana i Barbany died in Barcelona in the year 1919. 

Images: 
 
V Vallmitjana  The Marine  Ciutadella Park V Vallmitjana The Agriculture  Ciutadella Park V. Vallmitjana  Diana  (Gran Via / R. Llúria street)
The Marine 1886 The Agriculture 1886 Diana

                                         

Funerary Sculpture:
                 V. Vallmitjana Pantheon in Arenys de Mar Cemetery   
Pantheón in Arenys de Mar Cemetery
 

Selected LINKS to other websites on Venanci Vallmitjana i Barbany

http://www.bcn.es/publicacions/Bcn_escultures/autorsFrame.html  Web of Barcelona city council, showing photos of six sculptures of Venanci Vallmitjana in various places of the city.

 

Specific Bibliography on Venanci Vallmitjana i Barbany

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
 Catàleg de donatius    Junta de Museus de Catalunya

1935

 
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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