Joan Hernández Pijuan

Born in Barcelona in 1931. He studied at the Llotja School, Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts, and at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona between 1952 and 1956. He received a PhD from the University of Barcelona in 1988 with the thesis Pintura i espa .

Since 1977 he has been a professor at the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, combining his creative activity with his teaching work.

In 1993 the Reina Sofía National Art Center held an anthological exhibition called 'Silent Spaces'. He died on December 28, 2005. In 2011 the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow held an exhibition entitled Retrospective on his work.

Together with Pedro Cano, they held the First International Workshop on Water Painting of Landscapes in Blanca (Murcia) in September 1999. Subsequently, a walk with his name was inaugurated in that municipality in homage to the Catalan painter for being a pictorial space on the that the Catalan artist especially worked on and transferred to his work.

The artist died on December 28, 2005 at the age of 74 at his home in Barcelona, after a long illness that kept him admitted during his last months at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital.