20th Century Spanish

Amat is a Catalan artist who trained at the School of Arts and Crafts () of Barcelona, where he coincided with Ramón Calsina (1901-1992) and Miquel Farré (1901-1978), among others.

In 1924 he met Joaquim Mir (1873-1940), who became a kind of mentor to Amat and introduced him to other great artists, like Ramón Casas (1866-1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931).

In the 1930s he spent some time in Paris, more specifically from 1930 to 1933, together with Emilio Grau-Sala (1911-1975), a fellow student in the city with whom he would share a studio for around ten years. In that period he also became friends with Raoul Dufy (1877-1953).

In the 1940s, back in Spain, he was hired by the San Jorge School of Fine Arts to teach landscape, a post he kept until his retirement in 1971. Ten years later, in recognition of his extraordinary docent work, he was appointed a member of the San Jorge Royal Academy of Fine Arts.