Claudi Lorenzale

Claudi Lorenzale (1816 - 1889) was a Spanish painter which took part in the Catalan movement nazaréen with Barcelona. He studied painting at the school of the Llotja of Barcelona, where in 1837 he accepted the first price for its work Jael killing Sisara .

In 1836 it went to Rome with the Catalan painter Pau Milà which put it in liaison with the German painter nazaréen Friedrich Overbeck of which he became the disciple. It went back to Barcelona in 1844 with an artistic program purist taking as a starting point the medieval Art and the lesson of Overbeck. In 1851 was named professor then, in 1858, principal of Llotja. It had like pupils: Marià Fortuny, Caba, Padro and majority of the painters inhabitant of Barcelona of their generation.

With Pau Milà, Lorenzale represents the romantic movement médiévisant which is at the origin of an renewed interest for some " passed glorieux" Catalonia, nourishing the Nationalism and the particularism of the middle-class inhabitant of Barcelona of the middle of the 19th century. He was also a famous portraitist.

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Lorenzale with the Museum of Art of Catalonia (Barcelona)

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