Ramon Casas

✶January 4, 1866

†February 29, 1932

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About their life

Ramon Casas i Carbó was a Catalan artist from Spain. Living through a turbulent time in the history of his native Barcelona, Catalonia, he was known as a portraitist, sketching and painting the intellectual, economic, and political elite of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, and beyond. He was also known for his paintings of crowd scenes ranging from the audience at a bullfight to the assembly for an execution to rioters in the Barcelona streets. Also a graphic designer, his posters and postcards helped to define the Catalan art movement known as modernisme.

Spanish artist (1866-1932)

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Biography from the article Ramon Casas on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.