Els Quatre Gats
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Els Quatre Gats is a café in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that famously became a popular meeting place for renowned artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café
Entrance of Els Quatre Gats.
Ramon Casas and Pere Romeu on a Tandem
Facade of Casa Martí, Sculpture of Saint Joseph
Antoni Gaudí
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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, includi
Els Quatre Gats
…until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona's most prominent modernist figures, such as Pablo Picasso, Ramon Casas i Carbó, and Antoni Gaudi i Cornet. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989. Pere Romeu had…
Gaudí in 1878, by Pau Audouard
El Mas de la Calderera, home of the Gaudí family in Riudoms
Gaudí (in the background) with his father (centre), his niece Rosa and doctor Santaló during a visit to Montserrat (1904)
Gaudí and Eusebi Güell on a visit to the Colònia Güell (1910)