Joan Fuster Bonnin

Joan Fuster Bonnin Palma (Majorca) from 1870 to 1943, was a Spanish painter.

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“Sa foradada” – Paisajistas Españoles s.XIX – (Landscape Spanish 19th century)

Biography

Joan Fuster Bonnin was born in Palma in 1870. He trained at the School of Fine Arts and later in school-workshop Ricardo Anckerman. It was one of the most active artists, prolific and prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. He had the ambition to evolve and although it was not very common at the time, was devoted exclusively to the craft painter. He paid attention to artistic renewal process that unfolded on the island of Mallorca and became interested in all innovations with Antoni Gelabert where you can see the direct influence Anckerman Schools, Eliseo Meifren, Anglada Camarasa, William Degouve and Santiago Russinyol, becoming the pioneer of the renewal of painting Mallorcan style in the first third of the twentieth century.

Santiago was mainly related Rusinol, William Degouve and Juan Mir. Between 1908 and 1909 he befriended the French painter Henri Brugnot. Received tips leveraging Eliseo Meifren stay on the island of Mallorca between 1907 and 1910. From 1914 followed works Anglada Camarasa and exchanged experiences in the 30s with Guillem Bergnes.

He built a personal style which was chiefly concerned by the open, spacious and bright, where he was passionate about nature, the light and colors of the island of Mallorca, the result of that passion even said in an article in the newspaper "El Día" of August 15, 1928:" It is of interest to all Mallorcan, without distinction, defend our landscape that is our essence. We can not miss any opportunity that presents itself to extol, affirm and proclaim it as much as possible. Chances , the must seize all, precisely because of the fame of the Mallorcan landscape have to emanate days of prosperity and welfare for all Mallorca "

Development intense exhibition activity. Have been able to document thirty solo exhibitions made in Palma, Mahon, Barcelona, Bilbao and Buenos Aires. Participated in a larger number of group exhibitions, becoming very common in Madrid, Barcelona,London, Marseille and Munich. As realistic impressionism style, has a very similar stroke to the painter, also Majorcan Miquel Forteza.

Major exhibitions

• National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid (1899, 1901, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1926)

• Exposition d'Art in Barcelona (1898, 1907, 1921)

• National Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Madrid (1910, 1912, 1917)

• International Spanish Art in Britain and Ireland, (1920)

• Exhibition of Fine Arts in Marseille (1903)

• Munich International Exhibition (1913)

• Witcomb Exhibition of Buenos Aires (Argentina) (1929)

Awards

• Silver Medal at the Exhibition Balear de Soller (1887)

• Gold Medal at the International Exhibition Marseille (1903)

• Honorable Mentions in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid (1904 and 1906)

Tributes

• Circulo Bellas Artes de Palma (1945)

• Quint Gallery (1947)

• Centennial Exhibition (1970)

• Chapter House in La Cartuja (1970)

• Sa Llonja (1995)

Reviews

• Gaspar Sabater (Art Critic): "His palette captured the island in its entirety, his easel settled in the most rugged in the Mallorcan Tramuntana"

• Gaspar Terrassa (Art Critic): "Fuster has strength, senses the right direction, and thus provides full of promise to be collected"

• Manuel Cirer (columnist): "Joan Fuster infuse a part of his soul into his works and conveys to the public what you feel"

Works

• "The Passeig del Born" - Oil on canvas (132 X 207)

• "Retrat de l'Wife" - Oil on canvas (67 X 54)

• "Vista de la Badia de Palma a la sortida des sol" - Oil on canvas (58 X 71)

• "Nocturn amb figures" - Oil on canvas (102 X 129)

• "L'amo Moragues Son" - Oil on canvas (136.5 x 75.5)

• "Son Tarongers Rock" - Oil on canvas (64 X 73.5)

• "Molinar Nocturn" - Oil on canvas (60 X 41.5)

• "Sa Foradada" - Oil on canvas (46 X 55)

Bibliography

• Joan Fuster - Edicions Llonja (ISBN 84-86815-65-7)

• Dictionary "Rafols" - Fuster Bonnin, Joan (ISBN 84-398-2897-7)

• The contemporary painting in Mallorca Vol II - Joan Fuster (Editions Cort - Gaspar Sabater)

• Fruitful and persistent work of the painter Juan Fuster - Pere Ferrer Gibert (Article Journal "Balears" 04/11/1943)

• Pictures of Joan Fuster - Manuel Cirer Moragues (Journal Article "La Ultima Hora" 26/11/1903)

• The exhibition Joan Fuster - Ernest Dethorey (Journal Article "El Día" 11.14.1926)

• About the Mallorcan landscape - Joan Fuster (Journal Article "El Día" 15/08/1928

• Salvat Dictionary - Fuster Bonnin, Joan (Salvat Editores, p.1568. Fourth Volume.)

• Thirty-five years of painting in Baleares - Joan Cabot Llompart (Article magazine "Finas Artes" number 39)

• Joan Fuster - Bru Morell (Article newspaper "El Día" 08.01.1994)

• Paisajistas Españoles del Siglo XIX (Spanish Landscape 19th century)