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Beschreibung
Barcelona's transformation into a crucible of modern art, design, and architecture is explored in this exhibition catalog that sets its artistic flowering in vivid relief.

Presenting more than 140 works across painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and works on paper, the book offers a wide-ranging portrait of the city between 1880 and 1914-a period in which Barcelona became Spain's most innovative metropolis and a magnet for artists, architects, writers, and intellectuals. The volume explores Catalan Modernisme as the product of a complex cultural environment shaped by social upheaval, rapid industrialization, political volatility, and international artistic influences. Masterpieces by Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Mir, and Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa appear alongside architectural models and furnishings by Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, revealing the interplay between the visual and the built environment. Early works by Picasso-shaped by Barcelona's taverns, cafés, artistic circles, and bohemian enclaves-underscore the city's role in the formation of one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Incisive essays illuminate the cultural settings that sustained this artistic flowering: the intellectual milieu of Els Quatre Gats, the collecting culture of the bourgeoisie, the emergence of new exhibition venues, and the networks linking Barcelona to European centers such as Paris, Munich, and Brussels. Beautifully illustrated and intellectually expansive, the catalog offers a fresh and compelling understanding of a city whose art, architecture, and ideas helped reshape the contours of European modernism.
Barcelona's transformation into a crucible of modern art, design, and architecture is explored in this exhibition catalog that sets its artistic flowering in vivid relief.

Presenting more than 140 works across painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and works on paper, the book offers a wide-ranging portrait of the city between 1880 and 1914-a period in which Barcelona became Spain's most innovative metropolis and a magnet for artists, architects, writers, and intellectuals. The volume explores Catalan Modernisme as the product of a complex cultural environment shaped by social upheaval, rapid industrialization, political volatility, and international artistic influences. Masterpieces by Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Mir, and Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa appear alongside architectural models and furnishings by Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, revealing the interplay between the visual and the built environment. Early works by Picasso-shaped by Barcelona's taverns, cafés, artistic circles, and bohemian enclaves-underscore the city's role in the formation of one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Incisive essays illuminate the cultural settings that sustained this artistic flowering: the intellectual milieu of Els Quatre Gats, the collecting culture of the bourgeoisie, the emergence of new exhibition venues, and the networks linking Barcelona to European centers such as Paris, Munich, and Brussels. Beautifully illustrated and intellectually expansive, the catalog offers a fresh and compelling understanding of a city whose art, architecture, and ideas helped reshape the contours of European modernism.
Über den Autor
CARLOS ALONSO PEREZ-FAJARDO works as a freelance curator. ROGER DIEDEREN is Director of the Kunsthalle Munchen, Germany. MICHAEL PHILIPP is Chief Curator at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany. NERINA SANTORIUS is Curator and Head of Impressionism at the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany. FRANZISKA STÖHR is Curator and Deputy Director at the Kunsthalle Munchen, Germany. ORTRUD WESTHEIDER is Director of the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Buch
Titelzusatz: From Gaudí to Picasso - Catalog accompanying the exhibition at the Kunsthalle München and the Museum Barberini (English Edition)
Inhalt: 272 S.
200 farbige Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783791394756
ISBN-10: 3791394754
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Redaktion: Alonso Pérez¿Fajardo, Carlos
Diederen, Roger
Philipp, Michael
Santorius, Nerina
Stöhr, Franziska
Westheider, Ortrud
Herausgeber: Carlos Alonso PérezFajardo/Roger Diederen/Michael Philipp et al
Hersteller: Prestel Verlag
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Neumarkter Str. 28, D-81673 München, produktsicherheit@penguinrandomhouse.de
Abbildungen: 200 farbige Abbildungen
Maße: 307 x 250 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Carlos Alonso Pérez¿Fajardo (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2026
Gewicht: 2,006 kg
Artikel-ID: 138254432

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