In Paris, the Musée d’Orsay shines its spotlight on the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, known throughout the world for his Sagrada Familia cathedral, inseparable from Barcelona, and examines the working methods of this atypical and… little-known artist.
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Unable to move the buildings, the museum, associated with the Museu Nacional d’art de Catalunya, took up the challenge of staging the “artistic journey” of the architect (1852-1926).
Unclassifiable although historically placed in the current of Catalan modernism and in the broader one of Art Nouveau, Antoni Gaudí Cornet remains fully associated with the history of Catalonia.
Just over 200 objects and pieces of furniture, plans, drawings, photographs, stained glass windows and models are on display.