He is one of the representatives of landscape painting in Terrassa, together with J. Vancells, who was his pupil.
His family had a decorative painting company, where he and his brother Tomàs (1876-1951), also a painter, learned their trade. He completed his artistic training at La Llotja, the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, and the Baixas Academy. Throughout his career he did both easel painting and decorative painting. He took part in various official exhibitions in Barcelona and Madrid.
In 1898 the two Viver brothers worked with A. de Riquer on the Cafè Català del Raval in Terrassa, introducing European Symbolist elements. Pere Viver also did the decorative paintings in Casa Pere Màrtir Armengol (1909), which are now in the Museum of Terrassa. The early work by this artist uses a language akin to that of J. Vancells, but he later came under the influence of A. de Riquer, which is mainly evident in his decorative painting, before eventually producing paintings close in style to those of the new avant-gardes. As an easel painter most of his best work had the landscapes of the Catalan Pyrenees as their subject matter.
He also taught at the Terrassa School of Arts and Crafts.
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