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Espinagosa i Farrando, Joan

Biosca 1858 - Barcelona 1931

4 Stained glass window maker


The member of long line of stained glass window makers that failed to achieve the reputation they deserved, he was extremely active in the Modernista period.

Little is known about his career, although he appears to have travelled around Europe, imported a machine from Germany in 1903 to unpolish glass and brought printed glass to Spain for the first time from Britain. He is known to have won a gold medal for a stained glass window at an Exhibition held in Santiago de Compostela.

Most of his work is to be found in Barcelona, where he set up his own workshop in which artists such as the painter Ramon Calsina and Lluís Gargallo, brother of the sculptor P. Gargallo, worked. There is evidence suggesting that he was involved in making the stained glass windows for many of the buildings in the Eixample district in Barcelona. In particular, there is still a window signed by him in the Pedrell pharmacy (circa 1890; Sant Pere Més Baix, 52).

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