Apel·les Mestres i Oñós

Francesc Gómez Soler is recorded as having studied under Apel·les Mestres i Oñós. the recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. Positions recorded include member of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona. Works named in the authority record are Liliana. Work by Apel·les Mestres i Oñós is recorded in the collections of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Cerdanyola Art Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour and Mestre en Gai Saber.

• Name — Apel·les Mestres i Oñós • Birth Name — Apel·les Mestres i Oñós • Born — 28 October 1854 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Died — 19 July 1936 • Place of death — Barcelona, Spain • Education — Escola de la Llotja • Known for — Illustration, poetry, graphic art • Style — Caricature, symbolic illustration • Movement — Modernisme • Spouse — Laura Radénez • Awards — Cross of the Legion of Honor

His father, Josep Oriol Mestres, was an architect who participated in numerous major project, including the demolition of the city walls. He attended a French secondary school, and studied at the Escola de la Llotja, where he showed a talent for caricatures. His teachers included Antoni Caba, Lluís Rigalt, Claudi Lorenzale and Ramon Martí Alsina. He made several extended visits to Switzerland with his friend, the journalist and playwright, Pompeu Gener, where he was influenced by Swiss federalism, the poetry of Heinrich Heine, and the comic drawings of Rodolphe Töpffer. He would later work for some of the most important magazines of that time; contributing comics, jokes, and headline designs. • Illustration — Apel·les Mestres - Mestre en Gai Saber 1908 In 1885, he married Laura Radénez, a Parisian with some artistic talent. They had no children. Their home, a narrow apartment in the old part of town, with a garden of hydrangeas on the roof, became a meeting place for the creative community of Barcelona. He considered books to be a global art form, and was involved in every step of the process; including the paper, the cover and the binding. In 1912, he had to abandon drawing, due to a visual impairment. Two years later, he had become almost blind. He continued his creative activities however; improvising songs on the piano, then having them harmonized and written down by professional musicians. His songs have been recorded by many notable performers, including Conchita Badía. In 1915, he wrote a book of poems about World War I, Flors de Sang (Flowers of Blood), which gained him several awards, including a Cross of the Legion of Honor, from the French government. Later, these poems would become very popular with Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. He died shortly after it had begun. In 1938, a marble monument was dedicated to him, in a park at the foot of Tibidabo. A literary prize for illustrated children's books bears his name.

• Illustration — Tomb of Apel·les Mestres at Cementiri del Poblenou, Barcelona • Illustration — "The Pharaoh’s Daughter" (1881) • Illustration — A fanciful version of fighting the windmills, from Don Quixote • Illustration — "Death and the Devil" (1884–1885) • Illustration — Caricature in Almanach de La Esquella de la Torratxa (1902) • Illustration — Collection Liliana (1907) • Illustration — Illustration from the collection Liliana • Illustration — Caricature of Apel·les Mestres by Bagaria, published in La Esquella de la Torratxa (8 May 1908), in the series Galería cómica dels Mestres vius

The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation businessperson. Institutional cataloguing adds that apel·les Mestres i Oñós is recorded with the occupation composer. Recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded with the occupation illustrator. Recorded with the gender male. Born on 29 October 1854. Institutional cataloguing adds that apel·les Mestres i Oñós died on 19 July 1936. The register further records that apel·les Mestres i Oñós is recorded with the occupation translator. Recorded with the occupation poet. It is also recorded that apel·les Mestres i Oñós is recorded as a citizen of Spain.