Ramón Borrell i Pla (1876-1963) - Untitled

Ramon Borrell i Pla, Barcelona, 1876-1963) was a Spanish painter and engraver, grouped under the so-called Catalan postmodernism.[1]

Biography
He was the son of the painter Pere Borrell del Caso and the brother of the equally painter Julio Borrell. He trained at his father's academy and expanded his studies at the School of the Lonja in Barcelona.[2] He was a member of a group of artists that met at the tavern El Rovell de l'Ou ("the yolk of the egg"), on Hospital Street in Barcelona, among whom stood out painters Pere Ysern, Mariano Pidelaserra and Josep-Víctor Solà, in addition to sculptor Emili Fontbona and the illustrators Cayetano Cornet and Ramón Riera Moliner, most of them students of the Borrell Academy. The group published a handwritten magazine titled Il Tiberio (1896-1898).[3]

He participated in several Barcelona Fine Arts Exhibitions between 1894 and 1902. He specialized in horse painting, as well as portraits, with which he achieved great fame. He also dedicated himself to mural painting, notable in this technique for his work in the chapel of San Juan Bosco of the Salesians of Sarrià, the chapel of the Marqueses de Casa Pinzón and the side walls of the chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Basilica of Saints Justo and Pastor. He also worked as an engraver, standing out in the design of ex-libris, made in etching. When his father was afflicted by paralysis he took over directing the family academy.[2]