Jose Gartner UniverseUnder crushing skies, an Armada ship sinks near the cliffs: Gartner transforms the defeat of 1588 into a spectacular fight against the elements.
1866 - 1918Life of the marine painter
1588Mentioned defeat of the Armada
130 × 420 cmPanoramic format of The Invencible
°1,900Paintings, studies and drawings created - overall estimate
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Gibraltar -Málaga, 1866 -1918 · Romantic navy and history painting
Under crushing skies, an Armada ship sinks near the cliffs: Gartner transforms the defeat of 1588 into a spectacular fight against the elements.
José Gartner de la Pena was born in Gibraltar in 1866 and died in Malaga in 1918. Trained at the Malaga School of Fine Arts with the marinist Emilio Ocon, he stayed in England at the end of the 1880s and increased his studies there of sea. His marines are rewarded in numerous exhibitions, from Boston to Berlin, Brussels, Washington and Chicago. The Invencible, painted in 1892, is a panoramic oil on canvas measuring 130 × 420 cm. It evokes the destruction of the Spanish Armada of 1588: on the right, a large building is about to sink into a raging sea; the cliffs indicate a nearby coast. The painting combines romantic navy and history painting. The impastos of foreground gives the flow its violence, while the atmospheric glacis graduate the sky and the distance. Presented at the National Exhibition of 1892, the work earned Gartner a second medal. The "José Gartner" selection notably compares L’Invincible. His reading favors the atmosphere.
Gartner paints history without aligning heroes: the real protagonist is the sea, an immense force that defeats the fleet.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Malaga and Emilio Ocon
Specialized training places the sea at the center of his career. This milestone sheds light on the "José Gartner" collection by favoring atmosphere.
Study the English coasts
The British stay fueled observations of waves, ships and atmospheres.
The Invencible
The vast shipwreck won a second medal at the National Exhibition.
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Extreme panorama
More than four meters wide give the disaster its scale. This trait guides a reading of "José Gartner" centered on the atmosphere.
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Marine impasto
The thick material in the foreground makes the wave almost physical.
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Atmospheric glazes
Thinner layers graduate sky, sea spray and distant cliffs.
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Story without heroes
The ship and the storm replace the traditional portrait of the great man.
Explore by universe
A fleet delivered to the elements
Ship, waves, cliffs and horizon tell of historical failure through naval means alone.
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The giant that capsizes
The mass of the building on the right gives a visible shape to the disaster.
For drama. Reading "José Gartner" through atmosphere.Wave02
The main force
Impasto water invades the foreground and dominates all human action.
For the materialCliffs03
A dangerously close coast
Back reliefs close up space and reinforce threat.
For depth158804
The Armada Memory
The maritime landscape becomes a painting of modern history.
For contextHistoric Navy05
The Invincible
An Armada ship sinks into a muddy sea, under cliffs and a glacial sky.
Landmark work by José GartnerStyle06
Extreme panorama
More than four meters wide give the disaster its scale. This trait guides a reading of "José Gartner" centered on the atmosphere.
Reading key for José Gartner
Works to discover
The Invencible by José Gartner
A monumental navy from 1892 where the storm gives a romantic form to the historic defeat.
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