Ignasi Mallol i Casanovas

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Ignasi Mallol i Casanovas (1892–1940) was a Spanish painter and teacher. He helped protect Tarragona’s art and culture during the Spanish Civil War. He trained in Barcelona at Academia Martínez Altés, Academia Joan Baixas, and Escola d'Art Galí, and he went to Paris in 1911. He ran a private fine-arts school in Barcelona from 1916 to 1917, and later settled in Olot. In 1929 he won an extraordinary prize at the Barcelona Spring Exhibition. In 1934 he and sculptor Joan Rebull founded the Taller-Escola de Tarragona, an art school supported by the Generalitat of Catalonia with the city council. The first course ran from December 1934 to June 1935, and teaching continued until 1937; the building was destroyed by bombing in October 1938. During the Civil War he helped secure art collections in Barcelona and Tarragona with the Commission for Artistic Heritage. In early 1939 he went into exile and died in Colombia in 1940.