Claudio Castelucho y Diana (5 July 1870 in
Barcelona
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– 31 October 1927 in
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) was a
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sculptor, painter and art teacher from
Catalonia
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who lived in France.
Biography
His father, , was a stage designer. Claudio received his first lessons from him and also collaborated on several artistic treatises dealing with the theory of
perspective. He also began participating in exhibitions when he was barely out of his teens. In 1892, after some brief studies at the "Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barcelona", he moved to Paris with his family.
During his first years there, he worked together with his father and younger brother as a decorator and began painting landscapes in his spare time. He had his French début at the
Salon
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of 1897 with those works.
[Carlos González, Montse Martí, ''Spanish Painters in París (1850-1900)'', Sammer, 1989 ] His paintings on Spanish themes proved to be the most popular, so he concentrated on producing more of them.
He began as a Professor at the
Académie Colarossi
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and, in 1905, became one of the first group of Professors at the
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France.
History
The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the Acadé ...
, founded by
Alice Dannenberg
Alice Dannenberg, (4 April 1861 – 28 June 1948) was an early 20th century French painter of Russian origin who cofounded an art school in Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
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Alice Dannenberg was born in Mitau, then part of th ...
and
Martha Stettler
Adelheid Fanny Martha Stettler (25 September 1870 – 16 December 1945) was a Swiss painter and engraver. She was one of the founders of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and was co-principal of the school from 1909 until 1945.
Biography
Mar ...
.
As a teacher, he became very popular, especially among foreign artists studying in Paris. His students included
Kathleen O'Connor (Australia),
Edwin Holgate
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(Canada),
[AAVV, ''Edwin Holgate'', Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 2005 ] and
Alice Pike Barney
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and
Ellen Ravenscroft (USA).
In 1913, he held a major exhibition at the
Galerie Moos
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, a venue for modernist art in
Geneva
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, where he presented some of his Spanish paintings from a brief visit home in 1910. Except for another short trip home at the beginning of World War I, he would remain in Paris for the rest of his life and continue to be a regular participant in the Salon.
Writings, with his father
* ''Tratado completo de Perspectiva aplicada á las bellas artes y artes industriales''; Henrich & Co., 1891
* ''Escenografia Teatral: Aplicación de la perspectiva a la decoración escénica del Teatro, operando por el aumento visual de la planta de la escena''; Henrich & Co., 1896
References
Further reading
* Ester Barón Borràs, Ester, ''Claudi Castelucho i Diana (1870-1927): un pintor del color, un artista per redescobrir'', Bulletin of the
Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi The Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (, in English "Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George") is a Catalan art school located in Barcelona. The president is the architect Jordi Bonet i Armengol.
The institution was ...
, XVI, Barcelona, 2002, pp. 119–153.
External links
ArtNet: more works by Castelucho
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1870 births
1927 deaths
Painters from Catalonia
People from Barcelona
20th-century Spanish painters
20th-century Spanish male artists
Spanish male painters