Abigail de Andrade

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Niterói, 1885, oil on canvas

Abigail de Andrade (* 1864 in Vassouras ; † around 1890 in Paris ) was a Brazilian painter and draftsman .

Life

Andrade was born in the small town of Vila de Vassouras in the then province of Rio de Janeiro of the Brazilian Empire in 1864. The exact dates of life are not yet known. She received her artistic training from Angelo Agostini and Insley Pacheco in 1882 at the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro , after women were admitted to the Liceu in 1881 to study art. Her artistic work includes paintings and drawings on everyday life in Rio de Janeiro , still lifes and portraits .

She was a student of the married draftsman Angelo Agostini (1843–1910) in Rio , both of whom had entered into an illegitimate relationship. This relationship and a pregnancy with the birth of Angelina Agostini (1888–1973), who later also became known as a painter, caused a scandal in Rio, from which the couple escaped by fleeing to Paris . The second child died here in April 1890, and their mother Abigail soon afterwards. Abigail de Andrade was a promising artist at the time who was highly acclaimed by critics and was the only woman to receive a gold medal in 1884 for her work on display at the Salão Nacional de Belas-Artes , the national art exhibition of the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (AIBA) had, on a par with Thomas Georg Driendl , Giovanni Battista Castagneto and Johannes Georg Grimm .

In 1882 she took part in the group exhibition organized by the Sociedade Propagadora das Belas Artes in the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, the art society and art school were founded by Francisco Joaquim Béthencourt da Silva, who was influential in the art world of Rio .

From 1884 to 1888 she took part in the Salão Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1886 solo exhibitions took place in the houses of Costrejean and Vicitas. The renowned art critic Gonzaga Duque praised the fact that she was a professional among amateur artists and that she was to be regarded as a “modern” painter thanks to her innovative genre scenes of everyday life . The art sociologist and curator Ana Simioni mentions the still life O cesto de compras , first executed as a pencil and ink drawing O cesto das compras , then as an oil painting, the precise realistic representation of a snapshot in the traditional technique of chiaroscuro, what with the use of Photographs of the Insley Pacheco could be related as a template.

In particular, the fact that she was awarded the gold medal in 1884 as the first prize winner is highlighted by today's art criticism, as this marks a turn in the perception of women artists in Brazil who, otherwise downplayed by the art world as amateurs , have for a long time been unable to receive an academic art education. Today it belongs to the canon of names of the pioneers in Brazilian painting at the end of the Second Empire.

Exhibitions

  • 1882, Liceu de Artes e Ofícios, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1884, 26th Exposição Geral de Belas Artes , Rio de Janeiro
  • 1886, Casa Costrejean, Rio de Janeiro, solo exhibition
  • 1886, Casa Vicitas, Rio de Janeiro, solo exhibition
  • 1989, O Rio de Janeiro de Machado de Assis , Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Rio de Janeiro
  • 2004, Mulheres Pintoras: a casa eo mundo , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo , São Paulo
  • 2007, From Austria to the New World, Brazil , Kunsthalle Krems , Krems: A hora do pão (1889) was shown
  • 2015, Mulheres artistas: as pioneiras (1880–1930) , Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo
  • 2017, Invenções da Mulher Moderna, para além de Anita e Tarsila , Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo

Works

  • Trecho de paisagem (landscape), undated, oil on canvas, 19 × 58 cm, Fadel private collection

  • Estrada do Mundo Novo com Pão de Açúcar ao Fundo (Rural Road with Sugar Loaf ), 1888, oil on canvas, 49.5 × 72.5 cm, Fadel private collection

  • O cesto de compras (Shopping Basket, Still Life), 1884, oil on canvas

  • Corcovado ( Corcovado ), oil on canvas, 55 × 38.5 cm

  • A hora do pão (Hour of Bread), 1889, oil on canvas, 73.5 × 50 cm, Fadel private collection

literature

  • Teodoro Braga: Artistas pintores no Brasil . São Paulo Ed., São Paulo 1942.
  • Luiz Gonzaga Duque Estrada: A arte brasileira . Lombaerts, Rio de Janeiro 1888, pp. 210-211. New edition: Mercado de Letras, Campinas 1995, ISBN 85-85725-14-1 .
  • Ferreira Gullar: et alii . 150 Anos de pintura brasileira . Colorama, Rio de Janeiro 1989.
  • Mulheres pintoras: a casa eo mundo . Catálogo da exposição realizada na Pinacoteca do Estado em agosto / outubro de 2004. Apresentação e texto de Ruth Sprung Tarasantchi. Pinacoteca / Sociarte, São Paulo 2004.
  • Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni: Profissão artista: pintoras e escultoras brasileiras, 1884–1922 . EDUSP / FAPESP, São Paulo 2008, p. 209.
  • Sergio Fadel (Ed.): 5 visões do Rio na Coleção Fadel . Edições Fadel, Rio de Janeiro 2009.

Web links

Commons : Abigail de Andrade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrade, Abigail de. Union List of Artist Names. Retrieved July 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro. In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Portuguese).
  3. ^ Andrade, Abigail. In: Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. MEC / INL, Brasília 1973. Carlos Cavalcanti (Ed.): Volume 1: A a C, p. 80.
  4. ^ Catalogo Illustrado da Exposição Artistica na Imperial Academia das Bellas-Artes do Rio de Janeiro. Organizado por L. de Wilde. Rio de Janeiro 1884 (PDF; 26.8 MB; accessed July 8, 2017; Portuguese).
  5. ^ Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni: Profissão artista: mulheres, atividades artísticas e condicionantes sociais no Brasil de finais do Oitocentos. XXIV Cóloquio CBHA. Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Mulheres artistas: as pioneiras (1880–1930). Exhibition information. Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Invenções da Mulher Moderna, para além de Anita e Tarsila. Exhibition information. Retrieved July 8, 2017 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Andrade, Abigail de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES d'Andrade, Abigail
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Vassouras
DATE OF DEATH around 1890
Place of death Paris