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Jaume Busquets i Mollera (Girona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1968) was a Catalan sculptor and painter of the noucentisme
Noucentisme

Noucentisme was a Catalonia cultural movement of the early 20th century that originated largely as a reaction against Modernisme, both in art and ideology, and was, simultaneously, a perception of art almost opposite to that of avantgarde....
 generation.

He was the youngest son of a family of four artist brothers from Girona
Girona

Girona is a city located in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the rivers Ter River and Onyar. It is the capital of the Spanish Girona and of the Catalan comarca of the Giron?s....
, Catalonia
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
, Spain.

Busquets was a disciple of Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Pl?cid Guillem Gaud? i Cornet ? in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish language translation of his name, Antonio Gaud? ? was a Spain Catalonia architecture who belonged to the Modernisme movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs....
. He designed and sculpted the Holy Family
Holy Family

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Mary , and St. Joseph....
 ensemble on the Nativity façade of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Fam?lia , often simply called the Sagrada Fam?lia, is a massive Roman Catholic church under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 Basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 Shrine
Shrine

A shrine, from the Latin scrinium is a holy or sacred place which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor veneration, hero, martyr, saint or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are veneration or worshipped....
 in Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
. Busquets also designed and sculpted the statue of the Blessed Virgin with Child on the façade of the Girona Cathedral.








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Jaume Busquets i Mollera (Girona, 1904 - Barcelona, 1968) was a Catalan sculptor and painter of the noucentisme
Noucentisme

Noucentisme was a Catalonia cultural movement of the early 20th century that originated largely as a reaction against Modernisme, both in art and ideology, and was, simultaneously, a perception of art almost opposite to that of avantgarde....
 generation.

He was the youngest son of a family of four artist brothers from Girona
Girona

Girona is a city located in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the rivers Ter River and Onyar. It is the capital of the Spanish Girona and of the Catalan comarca of the Giron?s....
, Catalonia
Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
, Spain.

Busquets was a disciple of Antoni Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Pl?cid Guillem Gaud? i Cornet ? in English sometimes referred to by the Spanish language translation of his name, Antonio Gaud? ? was a Spain Catalonia architecture who belonged to the Modernisme movement and was famous for his unique and highly individualistic designs....
. He designed and sculpted the Holy Family
Holy Family

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Mary , and St. Joseph....
 ensemble on the Nativity façade of Gaudí's Sagrada Familia
Sagrada Familia

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Fam?lia , often simply called the Sagrada Fam?lia, is a massive Roman Catholic church under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....
 Basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 Shrine
Shrine

A shrine, from the Latin scrinium is a holy or sacred place which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor veneration, hero, martyr, saint or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are veneration or worshipped....
 in Barcelona
Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous communities of Spain of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008, while the population of the Metropolitan Area was 3,161,081....
. Busquets also designed and sculpted the statue of the Blessed Virgin with Child on the façade of the Girona Cathedral.

Career

A precocious boy, Busquets went to work, at the age of fifteen, in the Barcelona studio of Darius Vilas.

In his final years, Busquets devoted his energies exclusively to sculpture, producing his masterworks, the Jesus, Maria i Josep ensemble (1958) that forms the centerpiece of Gaudi's Nativity Façade and the Mare de Deu statue (1962) that adorns the façade of the Girona Cathedral.

Sources

Ajuntament de Girona, Els Germans Busquets 1917-1941, Girona, 1996.

Ajuntament de Girona, (Catalan)

Busquets, Joan, L'art que expressa la fe, Girona, 1997.

Cathedral de Girona (English avail.)