Frederic Lloveras Herrera (1912-1983) - Vista urbana

Signed by the author on the bottom and dated from the year 1975

The work is presented framed

The condition of the work is good

Dimensions of the work: 35 cm tall x 50 cm wide

Dimensions of the frame: 43 cm tall x 58 cm wide

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BIOGRAPHY OF FREDERIC LLOVERAS HERRERA (1912-1983)

He was a Barcelona-born painter with a post-impressionist style who stood out in watercolor, although he also worked in oil, drawing and lithography. He is a humanist painter as his subjects usually base themselves on the urban landscape of the cities he constantly traveled through.

In 1940 he left his workshop job to continue his career as an artist. It was after the exhibition at Mediterránea bookstore in 1942 that he began to receive recognition as a watercolorist; he held exhibitions there for two years. Also very successful were the exhibitions at the Syra Hall (1941-1943) and those at the Gaspar Hall from 1945 for thirty years.

Besides numerous trips throughout Spain, Lloveras was a traveling painter who captured in his paintings the cities he passed through. Therefore, many European cities can be found encapsulated in his works.

Outside Europe, the author’s trip to the United States (1963) stands out, as his works drew the attention of the New York Graphic Society. He was invited to travel across the country making paintings, which later became posters of them.

His artistic style aligned with the Post-Impressionists. He was a multidisciplinary artist who began his artistic career with oil, during the war he devoted himself to drawing and, finally, to watercolor. His technique earned him recognition as one of the best Catalan watercolorists of his time.

With watercolor he promoted the school “A lo Lloveras,” although he did not stay only with this technique and refused to be pigeonholed into a single style. Nevertheless, he always remained within Post-Impressionism and refused to participate in transient avant-gardes, which created a certain problem for fitting his works into contemporary exhibitions.