Gabriel Picart Painter Spain 1962

Gabriel Picart was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in 1962, where he still lives and works. His family lived in the famous Park Güell, and he spent his childhood in the same building that the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi designed emulating the house of the witch in the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel”. Growing up surrounded by such an artistic environment, Gabriel soon developed a great interest in art.
As a teenager, his parents rented the building opposite the concierge pavilion at the main entrance, the one with an oddly shaped tower bearing on its top a double cross. This well-known building had been Antoni Gaudi’s studio during the construction of the park. In the very same room that architect Gaudi executed his designs, the young Picart set up his first atelier.
It was in those years that Picart met the illustrator Enric Torres, famed by his Warren Magazine covers. He invited Gabriel to visit the studio that he shared with Pepe Gonzalez, one of the world’s foremost comic artists. Shortly thereafter, Gabriel became the third member of the studio. Picart’s career as an illustrator blossomed; he worked on commissions throughout Europe, mainly for Germany, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries.
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