Josep Lluís Pellicer i Fenyé (12 May 1842 – 15 June 1901) was a Catalan painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
Biography
He was born in Barcelona, and originally studied to be a surveyor, but switched to studying art with Ramón Martí Alsina, who later became his father-in-law. In 1865, he went to Rome to complete his studies.[1] He combined his painting with drawings designed for publication by the press, including political cartoons, which were often signed with his pseudonym "Nyapus".
In that regard, he was a supporter of Republican causes and, in 1869, his studio served as a meeting place for high-level organizers from the IWA; a meeting arranged by Pellicer's cousin, Rafael Farga i Pellicer, a prominent anarchist. That same year, he was elected as a City Councillor for Barcelona and was one of the signers of the Tortosa Pact.[2]
As a painter, he won medals during his stay in Rome and at the 1871 exposition in Madrid, where he presented his best-known painting, "Zitto, Silencio...que pasa la ronda" (Shut Up! Silence! The Patrol is Passing!). After helping to organize in the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition, he was named Director of the newly created "Museo de Reproducciones".[1]
Shut up! Silence! The patrol is passing! (1871)
He was also one of the founders of the "Institut Català de les Arts del Llibre" (a society of illustrators) and twice served as its president. He also wrote articles on various artistic subjects for La Vanguardia, La Renaixensa [ca] and the Diari Català [ca],[3] and was the artistic director for "Editorial Montaner i Simón", where he illustrated Don Quixote, The Legend of the Cid by José Zorrilla and some of the Episodios Nacionales by Benito Pérez Galdós.[1]
Salvador Bori, Tres maestros del lápiz de la Barcelona ochocentista, Padró, Planas, Pellicer, Millà 1945
Glòria Escala i Romeu, Josep Lluís Pellicer: l'Impressionisme i la pintura realista a Catalunya in "Revista de Catalunya" #153 (2000); and Josep Lluís Pellicer, dibuixant in "L'Avenç" #267 (2002).
