Timoteo Briet Montaud
Born1859
Died1925
NationalitySpanish
Known forArchitecture

Timoteo Briet Montaud (Cocentaina, March 3, 1859 – Alcoy, January 30, 1925) was a Spanish architect, one of the main architects of the Art Nouveau in Alcoy and the Valencian Art Nouveau.

Biography

In 1876 he finishes his studies in Alcoy's Industrial Elementary School. Between 1882 and 1883 he ends his studies in the Barcelona Official School of Fine arts. In 1890 finishes the architect's career in the Barcelona School of Architecture.

In 1893 Timoteo Briet marries with Maria Valor Boronat. In 1902 he is nominated municipal architect of Alcoy, by public contest.

The Timoteo Briet's art nouveau style will be contained, rather formally and especially with a great influence of the Austrian art nouveau movement Secession, influence that it is present in all his art nouveau works. Along his career he realized more than 40 works and architectural interventions, practically all of them in Alcoy. He die in 1925, in Alcoy.

Works

Relation of works by chronological order:[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Doménech Romá, Jorge (2010). Modernismo en Alcoy, su contexto histórico y los oficios artesanales. Editorial Aguaclara. pages 293–294. ISBN 978-84-613-8233-0.
  2. ^ "El Patrimonio Modernista de Alcoi" by Jordi Ortiz Gisbert. 2016. Pages 47–48.

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