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Josep M. Xiró i Taltabull

Painter
Barcelona (1878) - (1937)

He trained at the Trias Academy and was a pupil of Modest Urgell. He furthered his studies with stays in France - living for a time in Paris - and Germany.
It is the literary aspects, rather than the pictorial ones, which stand out in his work, of which he produced very little. His Symbolist work La mort del sol (Death of the Sun, 1903; MNAC collection) was well received by the critics and exhibited in Barcelona at the Sala Parés and reproduced in the magazine Pèl i Ploma.
He also did illustrations for books by contemporary Catalan writers such as J. Verdaguer and Àngel Guimerà, as well as a number of posters.
He was a member of the Artistic and Literary Association of Catalonia.

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