Ricardo Richon Brunet
Ricardo Luis Jorge Richon Brunet (* 1866 in Paris ; † April 28, 1946 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter and art critic.
Life
Richon began his training at the École Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and was then, together with José Tomás Errázuriz and Enrique Lynch, a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme , Henri Gervex and Fernand Humbert . Impressed by Edouard Manet's work , he took part in the painting courses organized by Joseph Meissonnier and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes .
He then received a scholarship to study in southern Spain, where he painted a number of paintings on subjects from Seville and met his wife, Rosa Ruiz Olavarría , a sister of the Chilean ambassador to Spain. In the late 1890s he moved to Chile, and from 1900 he lived in Santiago.
From 1903 to 1905 he was director, from 1913 to 1928 deputy director of the Escuela de Bella Artes in Santiago. In 1910, as Secretary General, he headed the International Exhibition on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Chile's independence and opened the Palacio de Bellas Artes . In addition, Richon was a permanent member of the Sociedad de Bellas Artes .
Richon wrote art reviews for the newspaper El Mercurio and the Revue Revista , in which he advocated the promotion of established and the support of young Chilean artists. He wrote texts for catalogs and wrote such scripts as Cien años de arte en Chile , Pedro Lira, patriarca del arte nacional (1919) and Monvoisin . He also worked as an illustrator for El Pacífico Magazine and artistic director of Zig-Zag magazine .
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His artistic work can mainly be assigned to naturalistic landscape painting and genre painting. Richon's works can be found in the collections of several Chilean museums, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , the museum in the Basque city of Tolosa and the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg.
Works
- Plaza de Seville
- Chilotes Pasando el Canal
- Boca del Maule
- Retrato de Marthe Ivonne Broquard Pillard
- Pescadores en Descanso
- Retrato de Enrique Lynch y su Hija
- La Barra del Maule
- Jugando Polo
- Niña con Muñeca
- Niña
- El Ciego
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- Artistas Visuales Chilenos - Ricardo Richon Brunet
- memoria chilena - Illustres personalidades
- Pedro E. Zamorano P., Claudio Cortés L .: "PINTURA CHILENA A COMIENZOS DE SIGLO: HACIA UN ESBOZO DE PENSAMIENTO CRÍTICO" in Aisthesis No. 31, 1998, pp. 92-93
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richon Brunet, Ricardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richon Brunet, Ricardo Luis Jorge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean painter and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 28, 1946 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |