Eliseo Mevren Roig: Impressionist painter from Spain

Out of his love of art, he abandoned medicine and practiced art

Studying in a foreign land, selling small paintings to make a living

During the Spanish Civil War

He became a refugee with no place to live

The last painting exhibition opened

He was too ill to attend

He was the Spanish Impressionist painter Eliseo Mevren Roig (1859-1940)

This painter, who has been diligent and bumpy in his life, has been famous since his death.

At the age of 20, he studied in Paris, full of vigor and eagerness to learn painting, and after returning to China, he participated in the national exhibition. Returning to Paris again at the age of 33, he began to associate with Impressionists, which had a great influence on his artistic style, and he began to move closer to Impressionism in the use of color, so he was classified as Impressionist.

His fame reached its peak at the turn of the century, with exhibitions in Both South America and Europe, and at the age of 46 he was appointed principal of the Parma School of Technology in Mallorca, where he moved frequently for work reasons, while as an artist he traveled for years. In 1936, when the Spanish milk station began, he fled his hometown with his family and became a refugee, and in the winter of 1939, his exhibition opened again, but the seriously ill painter did not show up, and two months later, Eliseo died in his hometown of Barcelona.

His works have a thick and calm temperament, without too many decorative brushstrokes, in his paintings we can see a rough world that seems to exist only in old photographs, the shadows are blurred, the atmosphere is thick, and the faint light and shadow scattered on the canvas are like a lighthouse, guiding us to look at the place where it hopes to see, and his paintings are not as sunny as the works of most Impressionists, but have a unique thick and cold atmosphere, which makes people fall into it.