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Vicenç Badalona Ballestar (1929 – 7 July 2014) was a Spanish painter and author.〔(Obituary Vicenç Badalona Ballestar )〕 == Life and work == Vicenç Badalona Ballestar, born in 1929, studied at the School of Art at La Lotja and at Baixas Academy in Barcelona. Among the best known works of Ballestar are certainly his titles to images for the Dime novels series called John Sinclair. Over the decades he has also created numerous other designs and illustrations, including for the Western bestselling series GF Unger, which also appears as the John Sinclair series in the German ''Bastei-Verlag''.〔(Vicente Ballestar in: Pulpinternational )〕 Ballestar was a member of the Catalan painter Watercolor Association and received an honorary medal of the association. 1988 one of his paintings was accepted into the City Museum of Nimes, where he often exhibited, besides the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Ceret and Collioure. Like many other Spanish artists, his works were admired at the beginning in collective exhibitions in Spain and Italy. In addition to the German ''Bastei-Verlag'' he worked also for the publishers Hale, Cleveland, Semic, Senic and Winther and beyond that Ballestar has published as an author numerous textbooks on painting. As an artist, he is represented with posters in the collection of the ''Donau/Bund Österreichischer Gebrauchsgraphiker''.〔(Vicente Ballestar in: Picture Index of Art and Architecture )〕 His funeral was held at the cemetery Tanatorio Sancho de Ávila in Barcelona on 9 July 2014. Ballestar was honorary president of the Agrupació d'Aquarel.〔(Vicente Ballestar in: Agrupació d'Aquarel )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vicenç Badalona Ballestar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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