Francesc D'assís Galí

FRANCESC D'ASSÍS GALÍ I FABRA (Barcelona, 1880 - 1965).
"Portrait.
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 64 x 52 cm; 78 x 67 cm (frame).
Painter, draftsman and pedagogue, Francesc d'Assís Galí began his career within a modernist language that shows the influence of Casas and Rusiñol, to soon evolve towards a style closer to symbolism thanks to the influence of Alexandre de Riquer, with whom he studied engraving. A member of the Círculo Artístico de Sant Lluc, he was soon attracted to artistic pedagogy; at the age of twenty-six he founded his own art school, where he taught humanistic art. He promoted the creation of the Escuela Superior de Bells Oficis, and was general director of Fine Arts of the Spanish Republic. He worked in easel painting, poster design, fresco mural painting and drawing. Most of his work is collected in the foundation that bears his name, in Palamós.