Manuel Ortiz de Zárate

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Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto (born October 9, 1887 in Como , † October 28, 1946 in Los Angeles ) was a Chilean painter.

The son of the composer Eleodoro Ortiz de Zárate spent his childhood in Italy . In Chile he then studied painting with Pedro Lira and for some time attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes . He then returned to Europe and lived as a portrait painter in Rome .

In 1923 he was one of the founders of the avant-garde artist group Montparnasse, along with his brother Julio Ortiz de Zárate , Henriette Petit , Luis Vargas Rosas , José Perotti and others . From the mid-1920s he lived in Paris and was one of a group of artists and intellectuals around Pablo Picasso , André Derain , Juan Gris , Georges Braque , Guillaume Apollinaire and Henri Matisse . He took part in exhibitions at the Salons de Paris , won several prizes and traveled to Chile several times. Works by Ortiz de Zártes can be found in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of the Universidad de Chile as well as in the Art Gallery of the Universidad de Concepción .

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