Dionisio Baixeras Y Verdaguer - Artist Info

About Dionisio Baixeras Y Verdaguer

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DionÍs Baixeras Verdaguer
  • Biography



    Disciple in the School of the Fish market of Martí Alsina and, mainly, of Antonio Caba, during his years of student Baixeras received the nickname of "the medals", due to his facility to win the contests.

    He exhibited for the first time in 1882, at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, and four years later he traveled to Paris, where he was enthusiastic about the peasant-themed realism of Millet and Bastien-Lepage. During these years he won awards at the Fine Arts Exhibitions of Madrid (1884, third medal) and Paris (1886, honorable mention).

    Back in Barcelona he made great compositions of historical character, like those of the auditorium of the university (1888), those of the seminary (1904, destroyed in 1936) and ...

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