Josep Mª Brull

Josep Mª Brull i Pagès was born in Ascó in 1907 but went to live to Tivissa where his father worked as a teacher.

He also studied teaching at the University of Tarragona. In 1927 he went to live to Ripollet to work as a teacher. There, he started his knowledge in Arts in “La llotja de Barcelona” and “ Escola industrial i d´Arts i Oficis de Sabadell”. One of his Art teachers was Antoni Vila Arrufat.

In 1940 his passion to Art made him to go to Olot where he experienced with new techniques and materials. He was pupil of Bosch Roger, Xavier Nogués and Manuel Humbert. But the Civil War in Spain and the Victory of Franco made him to change his life. He was accused by Catalanist and Independent and he lost his lissence to work as a teacher because he wrote in catalan in a magazine called “Germanor”.

From that moment he decided to open a private school in Ripollet with his wife, who was a teacher and a painter.

His first exhibition was in 1943, in Acadèmia de Belles Arts de Sabadell. In 1944, he started to teach sculpting and ceramic in Escola Industrial d´Arts i Oficis de Sabadell during more than 30 years.

In his sculptures we see costum scenes about rural work and maternities.

Josep Mª Brull participated in some exhibitions and won some known prices. He was also known as a nativity sculptor and for his roman mosaics.

He died in 1995, at the age of 88.