Vedic Horoscope for Tàpies, Antoni

Spanish/Catalan painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation. His father Josep Tàpies i Mestre and Maria Puig i Guerra, was a lawyer and Catalan nationalist who served briefly with the Republican government. At 17, Tàpies suffered a near-fatal heart attack caused by tuberculosis. He spent two years as a convalescent in the mountains, reading widely and pursuing an interest in art that had already expressed itself when he was in his early teens. Billé quotes "Mémoires : autobiographie" (1981): «Je suis né à Barcelone le 13 décembre 1923, à cinq heures du matin, dans un appartement de la rue de la Canuda, au numéro 39.»