Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas

Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas (* 1848 in Barcelona, † 1910 in Barcelona) was a Catalan architect, draftsman and watercolorist. He is one of the most important pioneers and representatives of early Modernism in Barcelona.

Biographical information

Josep Vilaseca was initially builder. He studied architecture in Madrid. During his studies, he made ​​numerous trips to European countries. He received his title as an architect in 1873. Afterwards he traveled together with Lluís Domènech i Montaner by Germany. From 1874 until his death he was a professor at the Escola d' Arquitectura ( School of Architecture ) in Barcelona. He was also president of the Associació d' Arquitectes de Catalunya ( Architects Association of Catalonia ).

Vilaseca was a very cultured, elegant architect. Although his architectural work ranges in its conception of space not to the quality of his more famous contemporaries approach, but rather in the detailed processing. Its importance as an important pioneer of Catalan Modernisme is not to be underestimated.

Supported by an excellent and detailed drawings, he was able to create smart and consistent in detail architecture. His stylistic development eventually led him from a more indigenous historicism, inspired by the ideas of the Catalan " Renaixença " through various " exotic" varieties of historicism (new - Egyptisch, neomudéjar, neo-Gothic, Japanese influences ) for Modernisme.

Vilaseca was a close friend Lluís Domènech i Montaner. During the 1870s, they worked together on some projects. 1879-1884, he created the " Fàbrica taller" ( Factory workshop) for Francesc Vidal i Jevellí an artist's studio in a classic historical style, full of locally influenced details. The studio for the brothers Masriera (1882 ) even imitates a Greek temple of the Corinthian order.

At the Tomb of the Batlló family (1885), at the Casa Pla ( 1885-1886 ) and at the Casa Bruno Cuadros ( 1885-1895, known as the "House of Umbrellas " ) are clearly äqyptische influences to recognize a former fad following, triggered initially revived by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, and especially in Barcelona through the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps project, who had spent several years as a diplomat in Barcelona. The screen business Bruno Cuadros in the same house, however, shows ( to match the umbrellas ) clear Japanese influences.

1888 built Vilaseca the triumphal arch for the Exposition. This reflects greater attention to the Mudejar style. The use of the " poor " material Brick not only gives the various buildings for the Exposition Universelle, a certain uniformity ( including Lluís Domènech Restaurant Castell dels Tres Dragons, Pere Falqués Agricultural Pavilion, Gaietà Buïgas nautical Pavilion, Josep Fontserès Umbracle were, and some other buildings built of exposed brick masonry ). The Brick and the Mudéchar style meant for the young generation of architects Catalan also a confident presentation of a " Spanish" perceived as a genuine architectural language. Just this added to the 1888 World's Fair to the starting point of the Catalan Modernism.

Vilasecas to see clearly while pushed forward from now on Vilasecas friend Lluís Domenech and Antoni Gaudí the development of Modernism by more and more free -formed, " flowing " building, " froze " Architecture in an exquisitely detailed, but very strict, based on a medieval architectural language to the four houses for the family Batllo, built 1891-1895. was only with the two built 1901-1904 Cases Cabot Vilaseca had arrived in the architectural language of Modernism.

Works

His most important works in Barcelona:

  • Casa Vilaseca (1874, no longer available)
  • Tomb of Anselm Clavé, cemetery of Poblenou (1874-1876, Lluís Domènech i Montaner with )
  • Apse of the church of la Mare de Deu de la Bonanova (1876, Lluís Domènech i Montaner with, destroyed in the Civil War, then rebuilt )
  • Art Studio for Francesc Vidal i Jevellí, Carrer de la Diputació 326 / Carrer de Bailen 60 (1881, rebuilt in 1892 by Enric Sagnier and integrated into the monastic school Sagrat cor)
  • Studio in the form of an ancient temple for the brothers Masriera, Carrer de Bailen 72 (1882 )
  • Monument to Bonaventura Carles Aribau, in the Parc de la Ciutadella. (1884, sculptor Manel Fuxa i Leal )
  • Casa Narcis Pla, Carrer de Pelai 11 (1885 )
  • Crypt of the Batlló family in the cemetery on Montjuïc (1885, sculptor Manel Fuxa i Leal )
  • Monument to Josep Anselm Clavé, Passeig de Sant Joan (1888, sculptor Manel Fuxa i Leal )
  • Arc de Triomf ( Triumphal Arch ) for the Exposition Universelle (1888 )
  • Casa Bruno Cuadros, " Casa dels paraigües " ( House of the umbrellas '), Rambla 82 (1888, remodeling an older house )
  • Casa Pia Batlló, Rambla de Catalunya 17 / Gran Via de les Corts Catalans (1891 )
  • Cases Ángel Batlló, Carrer de Mallorca 253-257 (1891 )
  • Cases Enric Batlló, Carrer de Mallorca 259 / Passeig de Gràcia 75 (1895 )
  • Cases Ángel Batlló, Carrer de Mallorca 315 (1895)
  • Cases Cabot, Carrer de Roger de Llúria 8-10, 12-14 ( 1901-1904 )
  • Casa Dolors Calm, Rambla de Catalunya 54 (1903, remodeling an older house )
  • Casa Comas d' ARGEMIR, dela Avinguda Republica Argentina 92 (1904 )

Gallery

Casa Bruno Cuadros (House of screens)

Casa Bruno Cuadros, former umbrella shop

Casa Pia Batlló

Casa Comas d' ARGEMIR

Casa Comas d' ARGEMIR, window detail

Tomb for Josep Anselm Clavé

Monument to Josep Anselm Clavé

Japanese architecture Castle of the Three Dragons El Poblenou
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