Alejandro de Riquer Inglada - Artist Info

About Alejandro de Riquer Inglada

Name variants

Alexandre de Riquer, Alexandre de Riquer Inglada, Alexandre De Riquer
  • Biography from Setdart

    A draughtsman, painter and poet, Alejandro de Riquer Inglada began his studies in Manresa and Languedoc, France. On returning to Barcelona, he completed his training with Tomás Padró and Antoni Caba, at La Lonja. He then travelled to Paris and London, and his contact in England with Japonisme, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Arts & Crafts movement was particularly important.

    Influenced by figures such as William Morris, he embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal: artist, craftsman and poet united in the same man. He founded a furniture workshop, produced designs for the decorative arts and collaborated as a draughtsman and poet with the leading publications of Catalan Modernisme. He also introduced the art of ex-libris in Catalonia, a discipline in which he achieved worldwide fame.

    Alejandro de Riquer Inglada took part in numerous exhibitions and shows, winning first medals at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona (1888), the National Exhibition in Madrid (1906) and the Universal Exhibition in Chicago (1893).

    Riquer is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Ateneo in Barcelona, the Cau Ferrat and the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona, among many others.

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