Ramón Borrell i Pla (1876-1963) - Estudio

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

Biography
He was the son of painter Pere Borrell del Caso and the brother of the equally painter Julio Borrell. He trained at his father's academy and extended his studies at the Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona.[2] He was a member of a group of artists who gathered at the tavern El Rovell de l'Ou ('the yolk of the egg'), on Hospital Street in Barcelona, among whom stood out the painters Pere Ysern, Mariano Pidelaserra and Josep-Víctor Solà, in addition to the sculptor Emili Fontbona and the draftsmen Cayetano Cornet and Ramón Riera Moliner, most of them pupils of the Borrell Academy. The group published a manuscript journal 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 devoted himself to mural painting, notably in this technique for his work in the Chapel of San Juan Bosco of the Salesians in Sarrià, the chapel of the Marquises of 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, excelling in the design of ex-libris, made in etching. When his father was affected by paralysis, he took over directing the family academy.[2]