Was born in Olot in 1929.Between twelve and sixteen years old he attended the Olot school of Fine Arts, although for personal reasons he had to discontinue his art studies during a few years. In 1953 he returned to the above mentioned School and was able to further extend his previous training in drawing, painting, engraving and enamels under the teachings of Martí Casadevall and Pere Gussinyé. Towards 1952 he joined the Cràter d'Art Group.
Alter participating in several contests, in 1961 he celebrated his first individual exhibition. It was about that time when, amongst other distinctions, he was awarded two Silver Medals by the Diputació Provincial de Girona corresponding to the years 1959 and 1964. Towards 1967 he started a long trip, combining studies with his job, which would take him to visit France, Belgium, Nederland, Germany and Great Britain.
In his artistic evolution his critics distinguish several stages within an essentially expressionistic style. During the years sixties his painting was almost cubist because of its structure and rather close to fauvism due to the way he treated colours; afterwards, as of 1970, his constructivist preoccupation started to disappear and, after skirting the frontier of abstraction, he diverted toward surrealism. Landscape, central core of his thematic, is not a simple objective reality, but something with its own life that the artist has to recreate in accordance with his intuition and sensibility.
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