# Angel Planells > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Angel_Planells > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Angel_Planells.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Planells > Source revision: 1335105344 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Spanish painter (1901–1989)}} '''Àngel Planells i Cruañas''' (December 2, 1901 – July 23, 1989) was a [Spanish](/source/Spanish_people) [Catalan](/source/Catalan_people) [surrealist](/source/surrealist) painter who was born in [Cadaqués](/source/Cadaqu%C3%A9s) and died in [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona). He was born in Cadaqués, where he met artists like [Eliseu Meifrèn](/source/Eliseu_Meifr%C3%A8n), Joan Roig i Soler and [Salvador Dalí](/source/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD). In 1918 he went to Barcelona to study painting, lithography and engraving, but he returned home due to economic problems. In 1928 he published his first surrealist poems and some art criticism articles. Between 1928 and 1929, Planells participated in his first collective exhibitions in the [Galeries Dalmau](/source/Galeries_Dalmau) in Barcelona (1929) and in [Girona](/source/Girona). In Cadaqués he met [René Magritte](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte) and other surrealist artists. Planells's first individual exhibition took place in 1930, in the Dalmau Galleries. In 1936, Planells formed a part of the ''Logicofobista group'', together with artists Artur Carbonell i Carbonell, Leandre Cristòfol i Peralba, Àngel Ferrant, Esteve Francés, A. Gamboa-Rothwoss, A. G. Lamolla, Ramon Marinello, Joan Massanet, Maruja Mallo, Jaume Sans, Nàdia Sokalova, [Remedios Varo](/source/Remedios_Varo) and Joan Ismael, and art critic and theorist Magí Cassanyes. The first ''Logicofobista Exhibition'' took place in Barcelona, in 1936. The same year, three works of Planells were shown at the [London International Surrealist Exhibition](/source/London_International_Surrealist_Exhibition). Since 1929 Planells lived in [Blanes](/source/Blanes), where he worked as a professor at the School of Arts. After the [Spanish Civil War](/source/Spanish_Civil_War), Planells painted [landscapes](/source/landscapes) and [still lifes](/source/still_lifes), although he continued to paint surrealist subjects in secret. Following the death of Franco, Planells openly returned to surrealism, exhibiting widely in the 1970s and 80s, until his death in 1989. In 2025 his surrealist painting, Napoleon's Harp, achieved a record price at auction of 50,000 euros. ==References== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071009053132/http://www.fundacioplanells.com/pdfs/planellsurrealista.pdf ''Planellsurrealista''. Biography of Angel Planells in English: pp. 258-275] ==External links== * {{in lang|ca}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20090615045558/http://fundacioplanells.com/ Angel Planells Foundation] * [http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/125663 Work of Angel Planells] in the [Art Institute of Chicago](/source/Art_Institute_of_Chicago) * {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713132906/http://pr.kalipedia.com/fotos/sueno-viaja-1936-oleo.html?x=20070718klpprcfil_180.Ies Work of Planells] in the [Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía](/source/Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_Reina_Sof%C3%ADa) {{Authority control (arts)|country=ES}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Planells, Angel}} Category:Spanish modern painters Category:Painters from Catalonia Category:20th-century Spanish painters Category:20th-century Spanish male artists Category:Spanish male painters Category:Spanish surrealist artists Category:1901 births Category:1989 deaths Category:People from Alt Empordà --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Angel Planells](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Planells) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Planells?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.