Llorenç Brunet

[2] Brunet won awards at some contests, in 1891 his teacher Eusebi Planas recommended him going to Paris, where he learned with the lithographer Mercier.

[1][4] Short after this, he returned to studies and he stayed in Oran and Algiers for some time practising painting and drawing and also worked as an illustrator for important French and Spanish publishing houses.

There he became interested of applied art of printing books and graphical work in general, field where he ended up standing out.

When he returned to Catalonia, he settled in Barcelona and married Consolació Salada, with whom had two daughters, Julieta and Maria Teresa.

[6] In 1910 the statal Junta de Pensiones para Ampliar Estudios, chaired by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, gave him a scholarship to study in Germany.

[7] When he returned to Barcelona was appointed teacher of drawing and colour in the section of artistic craft of the local School of Work.

However, a few years later he was appointed professor at the Secondary School in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, a position he held for very little time and eventually resigned.

[8] Brunet was a very prolific artist, working especially on bookplates, drawings, caricatures and posters, as well as watercolors, with which he participated several times in exhibitions in Barcelona in years 1911, 1918, 1919 and 1921.

Sometimes wanting to scratch, tear, perhaps remembering what his father suffered and the little protection of the governments of those times, despite the already high personalities have admired him and begged him to send and acquire his excellent original drawings, as did his great admirers and protectors, Segismundo Moret, Nicolás Salmerón, the King of Saxony, the Prince of Wüttemberg, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Dato, Bascarán, Maura and Bermúdez Reina.”[5] Since his death, his work soon was forgotten,[8] despite his remarkable artistic quality.

The land on which he had built the house had probably been given to him by the promoters of the area, Francesc Artigues and Gonçal Arnús, who were interested in the founding of a museum in the colony and convert it in a meeting point for hikers.