Documentary funds
Documentary funds
The Museum's collection of written materials is in the process of being classified, inventoried and digitized. At the end of 2014, the registration and inventory of the first documentation of the correspondence received from the Frederic Marès fund began. This process culminated in 2018 with the dissemination of the online catalog of more than 4,000 letters of the correspondence received from Frederic Marès with the institutions.
The Frederic Marès personal collection constitutes the original core of all the Museum's documentary materials, and at the same time the most extensive and diverse. It consists of personal documentation, correspondence, different academic funds and other personal and family funds such as that of the writer and cartoonist Eveli Bulbena (1888-1960) and that of the journalist Conrad Roure (1841-1928).
We also preserve the collection of Dolors Farró (1948-1998), former director of the Frederic Marès Museum, and the family collections of the sculptors Antoni Ramon González and Ermenter Vélez Valls and Concepció Vélez Serra.
The Documentation and Research Center has completed part of the digitization project of the Frederic Marès personal collection and presents the online catalog with more than 4,000 letters of the correspondence received from Frederic Marès with the institutions.
Frederic Marès and Deulovol
(1893 - 1991)
Personal collection of the sculptor and collector Frederic Marès i Deulovol (Portbou, 1893 - Barcelona, 1991). Considered the original nucleus of all the documentary materials of the Frederic Marès Museum, and at the same time the most extensive and diverse. It includes documents dated between the 12th and 19th centuries, although the majority of documentation corresponds to the period 1893-1991.
Eveli Bulbena and Strange
(1888-1960)
Bibliographic and documentary collection collected by the writer and cartoonist Eveli Bulbena, basically related to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity and the Dance of Death. It also consists of personal and family documents and is currently in the inventory process. As a result of a testamentary bequest, it entered the Museum in 1963.
Conrad Roure and Bofill
(1841-1928)
Documentary background for the playwright and journalist Conrad Roure Bofill, basically related to his journalistic, literary, political and social activity. We have documentary evidence of two acquisitions and one donation of documents from this fund.
Dolors Farró and Fonaleres
(1948-1998)
Documentary fund gathered by the former director of the Frederic Marès Museum, Dolors Farró Fonalleres, the result of her work - not exclusively related to the Frederic Marès Museum - and research in the field of museums and especially collectors' museums. The fund was donated to the Museum in 1998, shortly after the death of Dolors Farró, by her husband Jordi Lladó. It is currently kept in the premises of the Documentation and Research Centre.
Ermenter Vélez Valls (1887-1975), Antoni Ramon González (1909-1980) and Concepcion Vélez (1915-1997)
Family documentary fund collected by Ermenter Vélez Valls (Barcelona, 1887 – Olot, 1975), Antoni Ramon González López (La Unión, 1909 – Barcelona, 1980) and Concepció Vélez Serra (Barcelona, 1915-1997) daughter and wife respectively of the above. The fund was donated to the Museum in 2005 by Josep Maria Sánchez Anglès and Jordi Lladó Vilaseca. The donation included sculptures, drawings and albums and a documentary and photographic collection.
