Llorenç Brunet i Forroll (1872-1939), also known in Spanish as Lorenzo Brunet, was a Spanish illustrator, caricaturist and watercolorist. He signed his works as L. Bru-Net or Bru-Net. Life Brunet was born in Badalona on 14 September 1872, son of the primary teacher Josep Brunet i Bassachs, native from the same town, and Joana Forroll i Codina, from Tiana. During his childhood showed interest in drawing and painting and had contact with Antoni Caba, a prestigious painter and former director from Barcelona Arts and Crafts School who was also a friend of his father, to whom he promised to protect and help Llorenç study art. Some years later he started his studies at Arts and Crafts School. His teachers were the artists Claudi Lorenzale, Eusebi Planas and the aforementioned Caba. Brunet also had great admiration for Claudi Castelucho. Brunet won awards at some contests, in 1891 his teacher Eusebi Planas recommended him going to Paris, where he learned with the lithographer Mercier. In France he started raising money because of the precarious situation of his parents, to whom he sent money periodically, however he had to abandon temporarily his studies. Short after this, he returned to studies and he stayed in Oran and Algiers for some time practising painting and drawing and also worked as an illustrator for important French and Spanish publishing houses. There he became interested of applied art of printing books and graphical work in general, field where he ended up standing out. When he was 20 and was staying in Algiers won an extraordinary award for composition and historical theme with the large oil painting named Entrega de las llaves de Orán al cardenal Cisneros, which was later ceded to Badalona City Council. The next year he was sent to military service, to the body of engineers in Madrid where he likewise practised his artistic technique. From that period are drawings as La marcha del quinto and Mi capitán (1895). When he returned to Catalonia, he settled in Barcelona and married Consolació Salada, with whom had two daughters, Julieta and Maria Teresa. In 1910 the statal Junta de Pensiones para Ampliar Estudios, chaired by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, gave him a scholarship to study in Germany. He lived in Leipzig until some time before the start of World War I, where he get fond for bookplates. Since then Brunet felt great sympathy for the Germans, his