LLIMONA BRUGUERA, Josep
Catalan sculptor. His first works were academic, but after a stay in Paris, influenced by Auguste Rodin, his style drew closer to Modernisme. He was very prolific and exhibited in Catalonia, Madrid, Paris, Brussels and Buenos Aires.
At the age of 16, he obtained a Fortuny grant, awarded by the City Council of Barcelona, and moved to Rome, where he made an equestrian statue of the Count of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer the Great. The work was shown at the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888), where it won a gold medal.
He sculpted a large number of works in other genres, including the Desolation, shown in the international fine arts exhibition held in Barcelona in 1907 and acquired for the city’s municipal museum. He also worked in the applied arts, and as a draughtsman, Llimona produced a large number of excellent life studies.
He was one of the founders of the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc in 1892.