Portrait of the painter Alexandre de Riquer

Spanish school of the 20th century.
"Portrait of the painter Alexandre de Riquer", 1882.
Albumen photograph.
With annotations on the back.
Measurements: 13 x 12,7 cm.

In this photograph the draftsman, painter and poet Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920) is immortalized in a totally dynamic posture. De Riquer traveled to Paris and London, being of special importance his contact in England with Japonisme, Pre-Raphaelism and the Arts & Crafts movement. Influenced by figures such as William Morris, he embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal: artist, craftsman and poet united in the same man. He founded a furniture workshop, made designs for decorative arts and collaborated as a draftsman and poet with the most prominent publications of Catalan modernism. He also introduced the art of ex-libris in Catalonia, a discipline in which he achieved worldwide fame. He participated in numerous exhibitions and expositions, obtaining first medals in the Universal of Barcelona (1888), the National of Madrid (1906) and the Universal of Chicago (1893). Riquer is represented in the Prado Museum, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Ateneo of Barcelona, the Cau Ferrat and the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona, among many others.