Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol - Artist Info

About Isidro Nonell Y Monturiol

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Isidre Nonell Monturiol
  • Biography

    Isidre Nonell i Monturiol was a Catalonian painter and drawing master belonging to post-impressionism* and known for his expressive portrayal of the socially marginalized of Barcelona society. (He is also said to belong to modernism and postmodernism.)
    He was born in 1872 (not in 1873 as indicated by some biographers).

    His parents, Isidre Nonell i Torras de Arenys de Mar and Àngela Monturiol i Francàs of Barcelona, owned a small but prosperous factory of soup noodles. Together with his childhood friend, Joaquim Mir, with whom he attended the same school in the neighborhood of Sant Pere in the old part of town in Barcelona, he developed artistic ambitions at an early age.

    His early teachers included Josep Mirabent, Gabriel ...

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