Antoni Tapies (cat. Antoni Tàpies i Puig; December 13, 1923, Barcelona) — Catalan painter, graphic artist and sculptor, artist books, one of the most prominent masters of world art from the second half of the twentieth century.
Father is the city attorney, the mother's family, which unites the publishers and booksellers involved in political activities for the independence of Catalonia. In the early 1940s he suffered a severe pneumonia, he spent two years in hospitals and sanatoriums. In 1943 he entered the law faculty, University of Barcelona, in 1945, he left school entirely and took up painting. In 1948, together with the poet and painter Ioana Brassai, his cousin modest Coartem etc. have created the group Dau al Set ("the Seventh face of the hexagon") that focuses on Dada and surrealism.
