Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer

Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer studied at Escola de la Llotja. The recorded working language is Spanish and Catalan. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer, Museum of Montserrat, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and Sabadell Art Museum.

• Name — Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer • Birth Name — Dionís Baixeras i Verdaguer • Born — 23 November 1876 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain • Died — 9 September 1943 • Place of death — Barcelona • Education — Martí Alsina and Antonio Caba • Known for — Painter • Movement — Orientalist

Baixeras was born in Barcelona in 1862.

Baixeras began studying at an early age at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of Catalan painters such as Agustín Rigalt (1836-1899), Martí Alsina (1826-1894) and Antonio Caba (1838-1907). He and his brothers, Juan and Jose Llimonas, were members of a group, which included painters and sculptors, known as the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc (Artistic Circle of San Lluc); an arts society formed in Barcelona in the early 1890s by brothers, Joan Llimona and Josep Llimona; Antoni Utrillo, Alexandre de Riquer and a group of artists who were followers of bishop Josep Torras i Bages. This circle also included the celebrated architects, Gaudí and Puig i Cadafalch. At age 24 he moved for 4 years to Paris, where he frequented the countryside to make paintings. In Paris, he was impressed by the realism and naturalism of Jean-François Millet, Jules Bastien-Lepage and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, whose style would leave a lasting impression on the young artist. He then returned to Barcelona. Baixeras exhibited often and with the help of Antonio Blanch, he sold many paintings. The everyday scenes he painted ensured that his work was popular, and he was commercially successful.

Baixeras was married.

His works have variously been described as Orientalist and Costumbrista. His works hang in several museums including: • Musée d'art et d'industrie de Roubaix, France. • « Boatmen of Barcelona », (1886), MET, New York His more well-known paintings include: • Abd al-Rahman III Receiving the Ambassador at the Court of Cordoba, 1885 • Alphonse X, the Wise with his Collaborators • Illustration — Young fisherman (Roubaix) • Illustration — Caliphate of Cordoba • Illustration — Knitting, 1888, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya • Illustration — Boatmen of Barcelona, 1886