Feb 14, 2025 · Gaudí was born in provincial Catalonia on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Of humble origins, he was the son of a coppersmith who was to live with him in later life, together with a niece; Gaudí never married.

Antoni Gaudí was born the youngest of his parents’ five children. However, only two of his siblings, a sister named Rosa and a brother named Francesc, reached adulthood. Two others, a sister called Maria and another brother called Francesc died in infancy.

Antoni Gaudi parents were called Francesc and Antonia. Gaudi was the youngest of 5 children, but two of them, Maria and Francesc, passed away at a young age before he was born.

He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876). Gaudí's family originated in the Auvergne region in southern France.

Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí Cornet was born on Wednesday, June 25, 1852, at nine-thirty AM in Baix Camp, in the province of Tarragona. Some historians say that he was born in "Mas de la Calderera," his family's country home almost exactly halfway between Reus and Riudoms.

Feb 18, 2019 · Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was born on June 25, 1852 in Reus, the capital of the Baix Camp region, a region of southern Catalonia. The mother of Gaudí, Antònia Cornet i Bertran, was the daughter of a specialist in the manufacture of boilers, like the father of the architect, Francesc Gaudí i Serra, a boilermaker from Riudoms, a small town ...

Mar 12, 2014 · Francesc Gaudí i Serra and Antònia Cornet i Bertran married in Reus in 1843. Both they were sons of cupper smiths, had already 30 years of age and did not sign wedding chapters, for which -according to the Catalan civil right- they married in strict.

In order to pay for his education, his father had to sell a family property, and Gaudí himself had to work for some Barcelona builders. As a student, his first projects were drafting for Professor Francisco de Paula Villar, working on the apse and niche of the church of the Monastery of Montserrat; with builder Fontseré, on the Ciutadella ...

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( gow-DEE, GOW-dee, Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði]; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect and designer, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme.

Jan 12, 2025 · Antoni Gaudí never had children or a family. Why? Because his life was marked by his religious devotion and a complete dedication to his work. It is said that, as a young man, he was in love with Josefa Moreu, but he never had any sentimental relationship and …