Juan Francisco González
Juan Francisco González Escobar (born September 25, 1853 in Santiago de Chile , † March 4, 1933 ibid) was a Chilean painter .
González had his first painting lessons from Manuel Tapia , who recommended him to Pedro Lira . He prepared him for admission to the Academia de Bellas Artes (1869), headed by Alejandro Ciccarelli , where he - like Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma , of the same age - was a student of Ernst Kirchbach and Juan Mochi .
After completing his studies, he traveled through Peru and Bolivia in 1879, and in 1884 became a drawing teacher at the Liceo de Hombres in Valparaíso. In 1887 he undertook his first study trip to Europe, after which in 1990 he submitted a Texto de dibujo Moderno to the Chilean Ministry of Education for use in high schools. The font was published in 1906 by the Universidad de Chile .
On his second trip to Europe in 1897, he visited Paris, Florence, Venice, Madrid, Seville and Marruecos, studied 17th century Spanish Realism, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism and studied the works of painters from the Barbizon School . In 1898 he was awarded an honorary award from the Salón Oficial de Artes Plásticas . On another trip to Europe in 1904, he met the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla , with whom he remained on friendly terms, and gave painting courses in Munich, Frankfurt and Nuremberg.
In 1910 he became a professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes . His students here included Joaquín Fabres , Pedro Prado , Alfredo Helsby and Pedro Reszka . In 1915 he became a member of the Grupo de los Diez , an association of avant-garde artists, poets and intellectuals. In 1919 he became President of the Executive Committee of the Sociedad Nacional de Bellas Artes .
González left behind more than four thousand works. A larger collection is owned by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , which held a retrospective of his works in 1953 and a solo exhibition in 1976. In 1983 the Instituto Cultural de Providencia in Santiago organized a tribute to the 50th anniversary of his death .
Web links
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- Artistas Plásticos Chilenos - Juan Francisco González : biography, awards, solo and group exhibitions, works
- Profesor en linea - Juan Francisco González Escobar
- La Pinacoteca de Ninona - Arte y Artistas with images of some works
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | González, Juan Francisco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gonzalez Escolbar, Juan Francisco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 25, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1933 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |