Els 4 gats. Casa Marti. Modernism. Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Barcelona.
Els 4 gats. Casa Marti. Modernism. Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Barcelona. Els Quatre Gats was a brewery cabaret opened in Barcelona on 14 June 1897 Montsió located in the ground floor of Casa Martí, modernist building by Josep Puig (1896). During the six years in which he remained active until 1903, became one of the main centers of Modernism. Poster for a puppet show at the Quatre Gats, Ramon Casas, the Documentation Centre and Museum of the Arts It was created and governed by Pere Romeu, a character in a very characteristic appearance which was the living image of the premises and had worked as a waiter at Le Chat Noir cabaret in Paris. Romeo decided to create a local atmosphere with modern and bohemian Barcelona. Investors were the painter Ramon Casas, the Maties Ardèniz drapaire rich and the banker Manuel Girona. Was quickly adopted as a meeting place for artists and unusual characters. In common drivers and artists were Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas and Miquel Utrillo and musicians like Enric Granados, Isaac Albéniz and Lluís Millet. Els Quatre Gats is part of a long tradition of social gatherings, art circles and fall of Barcelona. Were carried out at the premises literary evenings, puppet shows and shadow, informal musical evenings by Granados, Malats, Albéniz, Darío de Regoyos which was part of guitarist amateur- painter Miquel Llobet, etc., readings especially poetic art exhibitions of the same Regoyos, Nonell, Pichot, Gose, Torent or Picasso, the first two singles which took place at the premises in February and July 1900.
Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Carrer de Montsio, 3; Barcelona; Catalonia; Spain.
Photo credit: © Jordi Sans Galitó / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 4, architecture, art, barcelona, building, cadafalch, catalonia, deco, els, facade, gats, modernism, puig, restaurant, spain, street, tourism, travel
