Of humble origins, Antoni Gaudí was born in Catalonia, the youngest of five children. Two of his elder siblings, Maria Gaudí and Francesc Gaudí, died in 1850, two years before he was born. The eldest, Rosa Gaudí, and a second brother named Francesc Gaudí lived into adulthood. His father, Francisco Gaudí, was one of a long line of coppersmiths. Between 1876 and 1879 Antoni Gaudí lost three family members: his brother, mother, and sister. His sister’s daughter, Rosa Egea, was thus left in the care of the surviving family members, Gaudí and his father. This trio lived together for periods of time until the death of Francisco Gaudí in 1906 and of Antoni Gaudí’s niece in 1912. Gaudí never married, though as a young man he may have proposed to a handful of women.
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