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The Güell Foundation is a non-profit organization for artists in Catalonia, Spain, created in August 1957 by Joan Antoni Güell i López, Count of Güell. Since the beginning its main aim has been to protect financially through grants painters, sculptors, musicians and other artists and students of art, mainly Catalan, being able to extend this to other artists in Valencia and the Balearic Islands.
The foundation has also participated in other artistic activities, has collaborated with museums and art institutions, and a fund of art. The main activity that has been developing the foundation, which has concentrated most of its economic performance, has been granting scholarships to young artists and students of art, currently granting scholarships in the fields of music, painting, sculpture and drawing.
Note that this is the work carried out with the full support of the members who make up the board, both institutional and private. The institutional board members are prestigious organizations: the Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, the Royal Artistic Circle-Barcelona Institute of Art, the Art Circle of St. Luke and the Orfeo Catalan.
Each year a scholarship is given to a candidate in each category convened, as the selection of the jury agrees. It's intended to be a recognition of the effort and study, and a grant to start developing their vocation.
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Gary Wray McDonogh. Good Families of Barcelona: A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era. Princeton University Press 1986
