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Hortensio Gheldeghel i Mercadė (also spelled Güell de Güell) (Reus, 1876 - Salou, 1899) was a Catalan modernist painter and "decadent" writer, the illegitimate or "natural" son of Josep Hortensi Güell i Mercader.

Prior to returning to his native Catalonia he had lived the first ten years of his life in Madrid. He was a friend of the painter Joaquín Mir Trinxet, and later of Picasso. As a painter he was originally influenced by the style of the Safron Group, an intellectual circle existing at the time. He formed part of a group of romantic writers resident in Reus, before later shifting to the so-called "decadent" style.

He is most notable for his modernist pictorial tendencies, which in later years became startlingly, even grotesquely, innovative. The painter Domènec Soberano, also a native of Reus, was his most important artistic teacher. Gheldeghel exhibited his works in Madrid, and in other important Spanish cities. He contributed romantic and decadent writings to the journals La Renaixença, Lo somatent, Lo lliri y La Nova Catalunya. In 1899, following an amorous disenchantment, the twenty three year old artist committed suicide by throwing himself off a cliff into the coastal waters of Salou. Certain of his friends, however, argued that he had already gone insane some time before from over indulgence of absinthe, proof of which being certain literal "obres excrementals" involving the feces of young prostitutes which he either incorporated into or exclusively used to create monochromatic paintings of them, while dressed, while washing themselves, and, ironically enough, while defecating. These pornographic works he claimed most "transparently" represented, in the pictorial medium, the decadent and transient nature of all carnal beauty, especially that of the feminine kind, whose various "excrescence"-filled chambers secretly belied the toxic enchantment of what was mere form and an illusion of the socially masculine (i.e. heterosexual) mind. These works were either destroyed or have been secreted into private collections. In 1902 his father published what he claimed was his entire literary work in a volume titled Florescència: col·lecció d'ensaigs literaris d'Hortensi Güel. Reus, the city of his birth, has reclaimed him as an artistically revolutionary son.