Painting by artist Angel Bertran Montserrat, framed.
Size: 60 x 50 cm
About the artist:
Angel Bertran Montserrat (Cervelló, May 17, 1922 - Barcelona, October 31, 1995) was a Catalan painter. His parents were Àngel Bertran and Llobet Montserrat. He was an actor and director of claquistas theater in Cervelló, and worked as a foreman in a glass factory until 1943.
As a child, he attended the private Balmes school run by master and director Salvador Pugnau. As a young man, he worked in a glass factory. He liked to draw and paint the corners of Cervelló, where he held his first exhibition in 1937. His great early work was to paint the picture of the Baptistery in the parish church of São Esteve de Cervelló, in 1939.[1]
From 1943 the Bertran-Montserrat family moved to San André de Palomar, Barcelona. First, he received private classes from the artist Joan Vila e Pujol "De Marfim" and soon studied at the Massana School. In the 1950s, he frequently exhibited and defined his unique style. He traveled to Italy and Morocco looking for the luminosity in his work. In 1953 he became a member of the "Real Circulo Artístico" (Barcelona Institute of Art).
He studied at the Royal Catalan Academy of Belles Arts in San Jordi in Barcelona. From 1962, he began to sell his work to private individuals and collectors, consolidating his style, such as using a palette instead of a brush.[2]
He has always been linked to Cervelló. In his work there are many references to locals and landscapes of the municipality, especially the surroundings of the Romanesque temple of São Maria and iconic landscapes. Each year he went from his brother Rafael Bertran and Montserrat (writer) to San Maria de Cervelló. Cervelló exhibited several times, the last one was at the Casal dos Avôs Josep Tarradellas, where he had the entire building to exhibit his work, in the late 1980s. He received the Gold Medal of the Círculo Artístico de Barcelona. A book on his life and work was published in the collection "Current masters of catalanic painting and sculpture".
In 2015, on the 20th anniversary of his death, there was a tribute at the Municipal Library of Cervelló with an exhibition of his work and personal documentation.