Jose Maria Parramon Vilasaló, 1918-2003

Born in Barcelona, he showed great artistic precocity, winning the Barcelona Youth Award at the age of 18.

In 1960, he founded the Parramon School (later Parramón Ediciones SA), dedicated to creating and publishing correspondence courses in drawing and painting. He is the author of more than 40 books translated into eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, and Japanese.

Since 1967, he has devoted himself to teaching at the former Escola Massana in Barcelona, one of Spain’s most important institutions for art education, and he is a member of the “Asociación del Instituto de Diseñadores Gráficos”.