Claudi Lorenzale

Spain · 1816–1889

Claudi Lorenzale i Sugrañes was a Spanish painter, associated with the German Nazarene movement and local efforts to recover the history of the Catalan region. == Biography == He was born in Barcelona. His father was a hatter of Italian origin. He began to study painting in Murcia at the age of twelve and, after 1830, was enrolled at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona, where he studied under Pelegrí Clavé and was awarded the first prize in painting for his work "Sísara derrotat per Barac" (The Defeat of Sisera by Barak), in 1837. That same year, he travelled to Rome, accompanied by fellow painter Pau Milà (a follower of the Nazarene artist Friedrich Overbeck), and came under Overbeck's influence.

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