Josep Mestres Cabanes was a Spanish painter and set designer who came from a family with a long artistic tradition. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Manresa and the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He collaborated with Salvador Alarma and later formed the firm Alarma y Mestres. After Alarma's death, he was commissioned to decorate several Wagnerian works for the Teatro del Liceo and then moved to his scenographic workshop until 1956.

He was also an easel painter and held several exhibitions in Barcelona and Madrid. He taught perspective at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and was later appointed professor of the subject at the Escola de Sant Jordi. He was awarded several medals for his work. His wo...