Enrique Galwey Y Garcia - Artist Info

About Enrique Galwey Y Garcia

  • Biography

    Painter mainly landscape painter, he was formed in the School of La Lonja of Barcelona. He begins to paint with Joaquín Vayreda in Olot, forming part of his famous pictorial school. Vayreda encouraged him to travel to Paris, where he learned from the Barbizon school and the impressionists. He became known in 1885 at the Exhibition of the Center of Watercolorists of Barcelona, and since then he alternated the competitions in his hometown with exhibitions in Madrid, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, London, Venice and Buenos Aires. He participated in several National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, where he obtained second medal in 1897 and 1906, and first medal in 1915. In the Exhibition of 1922 he occupied a room of honor with fifty-eight works...

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