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Enric Sagnier in Barcelona: Count Dracula of Modernism

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

Just like the Samoan writer Albert Hanover proclaimed the magnificent film ´Ed Wood´ by Tim Burton as perhaps one of the greatest films of all time, one of the reasons of the quick diminishing fame of the unique Transylvanian actor Béla Lugosi (despite the love and the admiration that his figure has always generated among certain sectors of the less conventional culture, of which not just the film by Burton gives proof but also, for example, the chilling song of Bauhaus which announces its death. Time doesn´t forgive anybody, it passes relentlessly and quickly, all over us, throwing illustrious bodies to the sombre crypts of oblivion surrounded by more and more shrouds of amnesia) was the fact of having turned down the role of the Frankenstein monster, a role which made Karloff into the new star who had to be eclipsed, for not being able to appreciate in him -there was the Central European dandy who the image of Count Dracula popularized for the first time – either romance, nor glamour nor voice presence, nor drama nor mystery. So in a probable related manner, part of the fame of the Catalan architect Enric Sagnier (1858-1931) – for the amount of family pantheons built, by the dandy dress of mirrors of his design of the legendary bar of the creepy disappeared Hotel Colón which occupied the corner of Plaça Catalunya and Passeig de Gràcia, for the noble condition which was given to him due to the number of schools and churches (we suspect that possibly with their respective crypts) which he made for free or for the sepulchral symbolism of... read more