Dionís Baixeras

DIONÍS BAIXERAS VERDAGUER (Barcelona, 1862 - 1943).
"Saint Teresa of Jesus".
Mixed media on paper.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Original drawing of Saint Teresa of Jesus for the set of postcards of the Saint illustrated by Baixeras and Ramón Casas.
These illustrations are also reproduced in the book "Història d'una ànima escrita per ella mateixa: Santa Teresa de Jesús".
Measurements: 64 x 48 cm; 70 x 51 cm (frame).

The painting of Dionís Baixeras is characterized by a sensitive and poetic naturalism that portrays humble scenes of the Catalan rural and marine life with great humanity and serenity.

A disciple at the Escuela de la Lonja of Martí Alsina and, above all, of Antonio Caba, at the age of twenty-four Baixeras traveled to Paris, where he became enthusiastic about the peasant-themed realism of Millet and Bastien-Lepage. On his return to Barcelona he painted large historical compositions, such as those of the auditorium of the university (1888), those of the seminary (1904, destroyed in 1936) and those of the dome of the Sant Jordi hall of the Generalitat (1928). He devoted himself mainly to naturalistic painting, with marine or rural themes, in works that show a certain influence of the school of Olot. He meticulously elaborated his works in the workshop, so his previous drawings have much more freshness and interest. In 1908 he made a collection of drawings, of great documentary value, of places in old Barcelona that were to disappear during the construction of the Via Layetana. His work is preserved in the Metropolitan of New York, the Museum of Art and Industry of Roubaix (France) and the MACBA, among others.