This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Jose Bartoli was a painter, set designer and artist born in Barcelona in 1910 in a family linked to music and art. Reveler and playboy character, when very young he began working as a draftsman in the press and became involved in trade unionism of the electrifying Barcelona at the time.
In February 1939, near the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), he crossed the French border. Over two years, he would pass through seven concentration camps, the latest being that of Bram, from which he escaped. Arrested by the Gestapo, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp, but on the way jumped the train and fled, and after a long journey, arrived in Mexico. There he resumed his painting and came into contact with the environment of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, who was a lover. He participated in the founding of the gallery Prisse.
In the United States he was the first artist of the journal Hollyday, highlighting some of the more sought after artists of the time. Also he was decorated for historical films in Hollywood and was part of 10th Street group, along with Willem de Kooning, Kline, Pollock and Rothko.
In 1973 was awarded the Arts Mark Rothko. Among books he illustrated are Caliban (1971), The Black Man in America (1975) and Concentration Camps (Mexico, 1943, Madrid, Spain, 2006 .) The latter title, on texts of Catalan journalist i Molins Fabrega, includes an extensive documentary series of pen drawings on their experience in concentration camps.
Jose Bartoli died in 1995. |
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