Lluís Masriera Rosés

The recorded working language is Spanish and Catalan. Work by Lluís Masriera Rosés is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museu del Modernisme Català, Museu d'Art Jaume Morera, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and jewellery museum Pforzheim.

He was born in Barcelona in 1872 to the painter Josep Masriera, who was also a well-known silversmith and, along with his brother Francesc Masriera, ran the family jewelry business started by his father, José Masriera i Vidal. Lluís Masriera started in his family's workshop and created pieces with the same aesthetic and precision that the workshop had always been known for; one which highlighted technical perfection but little creativity. • Illustration — Necklace in the form of a nymph

In 1889, Masriera went to study at the Academy of Beaux Arts in Geneva where he was taught by the enameller Edward Lossier. The geographic positioning afforded him the opportunity to travel to Paris often and frequent the salons. It was in these legendary meetings that Masriera was introduced to the idea of Art Nouveau and the work of René Lalique.

In 1900, at the age of twenty eight, Masriera returned to Barcelona and was named the new artistic director of the family workshop and changed the direction and style of the jewellery that was produced. Inspired by Lalique's designs, Masriera melted down all the family’s existing jewellery stock in order to use the raw materials to redesign the pieces into his new style/aesthetic: Modernisme. The total inventory overhaul was completed in six months. The new collection debuted on Saint Thomas day in 1901 and the pieces "were immediately successful and sold out in a single week." Masriera continued to create Modernisme pieces until 1913, when he stated in an essay, The Fall of Modernism, that "Modernism [was] dead." After Art Nouveau had fallen out of favor, Masriera moved on to the Noucentisme school of design which embraced classical, timeless design elements until his death in 1958.

The authorities additionally record the headings Lluís Masriera i Rosés, Lluis Masriera Roses, Luis Masriera Roses, Luis Masriera Rosés and Lluís Masriera. His recorded languages were Spanish and Catalan. He was the child of Josep Masriera i Manovens.