; died 1912) was a Catalan painter active in the late 19th century. He was a Catalan symbolist painter, along with other artists including Adrià Gual

Adriá Gual

Adrià Gual i Queralt was a Catalan playwright and theatre businessman, founder of the Escola Catalana d'Art Dramàtic and a pioneer of cinema in Barcelona.-Theater:*Misteri de dolor*Donzell qui cerca muller*L'emigrant...

, Josep Maria Tamburini, and Alexandre de Riquer

Alexandre de Riquer

Alexandre de Riquer i Ynglada, 7th Count of Casa Dávalos , was a versatile artist intellectual and Catalan Spanish designer, illustrator, painter, engraver, writer and poet. He was one of the leading figures of Modernism in Catalonia.He belonged to an aristocratic family, the Counts of Casa Dávalos...

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Biografía

He studied at the Escola de la Llotja

Escola de la Llotja

The Escola de la Llotja , officially the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Barcelona , is an art and design school located in Barcelona, Spain. The school took its name from its initial location in the Llotja de Mar palace; it was moved in 1967 to its current location at 17 Ciutat de Balaguer Street...

 and in París

Paris

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. He later worked as an art critic in the magazine Joventut. He participated in a variety of intellectual groups of the era, including the Els Quatre Gats

Els Quatre Gats

Els Quatre Gats , often written Els 4 Gats, was a café in Barcelona which opened on 12 June 1897. It also operated as a hostel, a cabaret, a pub and a restaurant. Active until 1903, Els Quatre Gats became one of the main centers of Modernisme in Barcelona...

 and the Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona. He was also friends with Ramon Casas and Santiago Rusiñol

Santiago Rusiñol

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats was a Catalan post-impressionist/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens....

. In 1896, he won first place in the International Exposition of Barcelona with his work Ensomni.

In 2009, the Caixa Foundation Girona put on a retrospective exhibition in its Fontana d'Or Center, which featured over 40 works by Brull. Two other solo exhibitions were dedicated to him: in 1924 and in 1959.Caixa Girona . Biografía en el boletín de información de la exposición

Brull's early work is realistic, but later in his career he focused on symbolism, including representations of (typically female) mythological characters. He is also known for his many portraits, the majority of which were of children and beggars in Barcelona in the later 19th century.

Representative works

• La tonsura del rei Wamba
• Ensomni
• Sueño, currently in the MNAC
  MNAC
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• Retrato de Niña, currently in the Biblioteca Museo Víctor Balaguer

Sources

• Guia del Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Editat pel MNAC, 2004. ISBN 84-8043-136-9