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IGNASI MALLOL I CASANOVAS (Tarragona, 1892 - Bogotá, 1940). "Landscape", ca.1914. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 48 x 50 cm; 60 x 61,5 cm. Ignasi Mallol was a Spanish painter and educator, who played a fundamental role in the conservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of Tarragona during the Spanish Civil War. He moved to Barcelona at a very young age and trained at the Martínez Altés Academy, the Joan Baixas Academy and the Galí Art School. At that time he shared his studio and friendship with Esteve Monegal and Francisco Vayreda. He travelled to Paris in 1911, once he had finished decorating the dining room of the house of the lawyer Joan Permanyer. In fact, shortly before that, both his colleagues in the Barcelona workshop and Domènec Carles had already settled in the French capital. Back in Barcelona between 1916 and 1917, he directed a private academy of fine arts that has been considered the heir to the Galí school, the so-called Escola de Bells Oficis, together with Romà Jori. In 1917 he abandoned the academy and the projects undertaken in Barcelona, depressed by the death of Prat de la Riba. He moved to Olot, where he was one of the leading exponents of the new Olot school. A member of the Barcelona-based association Les Arts i els Artistes, he exhibited in the salons organised by this organisation and held individual exhibitions. On his return to Tarragona, he exchanged the green landscape for the countryside and the coast. He won the extraordinary prize at the 1929 Spring Exhibition in Barcelona. Together with the sculptor Joan Rebull, he directed the Taller-Escuela de Tarragona, an artistic training centre founded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and Tarragona City Council in 1934, the development of which was cut short by the Civil War. Mallol and Rebull were appointed delegates of the Artistic Heritage Commission of the city of Tarragona. The archives of the Tarragona Commission were kept in the archbishop's palace until the occupation of Catalonia by the rebels. As for the Workshop-School, in 1938 a bombardment destroyed the building where it was located, and the teaching activity was transferred to the Archbishop's Palace. Classes continued until the end of the war. Among its students were Tomás Olivar, Garcianguera and Gonzalo Lindin, among others.
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IGNASI MALLOL I CASANOVAS (Tarragona, 1892 - Bogotá, 1940). "Landscape", ca.1914. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Size: 48 x 50 cm; 60 x 61,5 cm. Ignasi Mallol was a Spanish painter and educator, who played a fundamental role in the conservation of the artistic and cultural heritage of Tarragona during the Spanish Civil War. He moved to Barcelona at a very young age and trained at the Martínez Altés Academy, the Joan Baixas Academy and the Galí Art School. At that time he shared his studio and friendship with Esteve Monegal and Francisco Vayreda. He travelled to Paris in 1911, once he had finished decorating the dining room of the house of the lawyer Joan Permanyer. In fact, shortly before that, both his colleagues in the Barcelona workshop and Domènec Carles had already settled in the French capital. Back in Barcelona between 1916 and 1917, he directed a private academy of fine arts that has been considered the heir to the Galí school, the so-called Escola de Bells Oficis, together with Romà Jori. In 1917 he abandoned the academy and the projects undertaken in Barcelona, depressed by the death of Prat de la Riba. He moved to Olot, where he was one of the leading exponents of the new Olot school. A member of the Barcelona-based association Les Arts i els Artistes, he exhibited in the salons organised by this organisation and held individual exhibitions. On his return to Tarragona, he exchanged the green landscape for the countryside and the coast. He won the extraordinary prize at the 1929 Spring Exhibition in Barcelona. Together with the sculptor Joan Rebull, he directed the Taller-Escuela de Tarragona, an artistic training centre founded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and Tarragona City Council in 1934, the development of which was cut short by the Civil War. Mallol and Rebull were appointed delegates of the Artistic Heritage Commission of the city of Tarragona. The archives of the Tarragona Commission were kept in the archbishop's palace until the occupation of Catalonia by the rebels. As for the Workshop-School, in 1938 a bombardment destroyed the building where it was located, and the teaching activity was transferred to the Archbishop's Palace. Classes continued until the end of the war. Among its students were Tomás Olivar, Garcianguera and Gonzalo Lindin, among others.
