Background
Son of Camillo and Guzeppina Grixti.
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Esprit Barthet
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He went to Rome where he attended the Regia Accademia di Belle Arti and later to England, at the Academy of Arts in Bath.
Career
He started art studies in Valletta, at the Government School of Arts. In the early 1950s he started experimenting with cubism and the abstract. Much of his work can be admired in public places, Government Departments and in many private collections in Malta and abroad.
He died on 4 July 1999.
There is a street named after him: "Triq Esprit Barthet" in Swieqi, Malta. Triq means street in Maltese.
1932 - School of Arts, Malta 1932 Under Robert and Edward Caruana Dingli 1938-1939 - Accademia d"Belle Arti, Rome Under Carlo Siviero 1947 - Academy of Arts in Bath Corsham, Wiltshire, England Parliament established the in the 1920s. During the reconstruction period that followed the Second World War, the emergence of the "Modern Art Group", whose members included Josef Kalleya (1898–1998), George Preca (1909–1984), Anton Inglott (1915–1945), Emvin Cremona (1919–1986), Frank Portelli (b 1922), Antoine Camilleri (b 1922) and Esprit Barthet (1919–1999) greatly enhanced the local art scene.
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Nationality
Malta