MARIANO ANDREU

Mariano Andreu was painter, drawer, enameling master, sculptor, and stage designer. At an early age he went to Paris; the young man was looking for novelty in the capital of fin de siècle, and was painting, at this bohemian beginning, wine bars and feminine portraits.  Very soon he started earning his life as an illustrator of various magazines, learning different techniques of sketching like boxwood, aquafort, chisel, and lithograph; at the same time he did not give up his work as enameling master, spraying enamel over jewelry. As a stage designer he was successful in Paris and London – in the festivals of Stratford-on-Avon that commemorated works of Shakespeare -, collaborating with Glinka, Fokin, Giradoux... With Néstor Martín Fernández de la Torre, the so-called last symbolic painter, he founded a small group of artists of ambiguous and refined aestheticism, the members of which were also Ismael Smith and Laura Albéniz, composer’s daughter. They took part together in the unique exhibition celebrated in 1911 in the Gallery del Fayans Català, where Andreu presented, besides drawings and various paintings, a relief with three figures covered with enamel entitled L’orb. In 1916 he took part in the exhibition of the Salon of Arts and Artists of Barcelona with a portrait of his wife in gouache, and in 1934 he staged an individual exhibition in the famous Parès Hall of the Condal City.

Still-Life, 1926

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