Alberto María Candioti

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Candioti (No. 3) at a celebratory meal held by German-Spanish associations in 1923 on the occasion of his departure as Argentine Consul General from Berlin in 1923. The person marked with the number 1 is the President of the Reichstag, Paul Löbe .

Alberto María Candioti , pseudonym Almaca Fournier , (born December 28, 1889 in Rosario , † 1968 ) was an Argentine writer, painter and diplomat .

Life

Alberto María Candioti was the son of Amalia Fournier de Candioti and Mariano N. Candioti, his brother Pedro Antonio was a famous swimmer.

He studied in Europe. In 1912 he joined the foreign service, where he was employed in Chile until 1913. From 1913 to 1916 he was consul ("cónsul de tercera clase") in Lemberg . The war correspondent Juan Pujol reported for ABC Madrid about a rescue operation in which Candioti was able to save civilians, mostly Jewish people, from capture and the confiscation of the men by Russian troops in 1914 during the First World War . From May 1916 to 1923 he was consul in Berlin . During his consular general in Beirut (1927 to 1929) he was responsible for Lebanon and Syria . Candioti was also consul general in Bulgaria and Italy, ministre plénipotentiaire in Yugoslavia , Greece and Ecuador and later ambassador to Colombia and until 1943 in Mexico. In September 1943 he resigned from his diplomatic career in order to be politically active in Argentina and to take part in the fight against the dictatorship.

Candioti was a member of the UCR ( Unión Cívica Radical , German Radical Citizens Union) since his youth . Candioti was a member of parliament from 1946 to 1950, but after a resolution by the UCR he resigned along with 19 other members of his parliamentary group. After the Revolución Libertadora in 1955, he returned to the diplomatic service and was ambassador to London from 1955 to 1966 .

Alberto Candioti worked as a writer in various fields: his first work in 1917 was the novel “En la penumbra de la tarde”. Candioti also wrote on historical, artistic and political topics. He published essays on the Argentine lawyer and Foreign Minister Honorio Pueyrredón and the independence fighter José de San Martín . His political writings deal with pacifism in Latin America after World War I and repeatedly with the political situation in Argentina.

Candioti painted abstract landscapes mainly in oil and ink under the pseudonym Almaca Fournier . He studied at the Ateneum in Helsinki and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris under Lucien Simon and René Ménard . During his stay in Berlin from 1920 to 1925 he met Wassily Kandinsky and his future friend Emilio Pettoruti . Here he also met the Argentine painter Alfredo Guttero , who later portrayed him. About Pettoruti he wrote the monograph "Pettoruti: futurismo, cubismo, expresionismo, sintetismo, dadaismo" published in 1923; the book was published at the time when Pettoruti had returned to Buenos Aires and faced massive criticism of his modern painting.

Publications

  • De Santo Domingo a Chapultepec (pp. 29-43). On the development of the inter-American security system and the questions of military intervention since the Acta de Chapultepec of 1945.
  • 1917: En la penumbra de la tarde. Gehring & Reimers, Berlin.
  • 1923: Los postulantes. Editora Internacional, Berlin.
  • 1925: Historia de la institución consular en la antigüedad y en la edad media. Editoria Internacional, Buenos Aires.
  • 1933: El jardín del amor: vida de un joven emir damasceno del siglo VIe. de la héjira. , M. Gleizer, Buenos Aires.
  • 1934: El Cofrecillo Esmaltado: poemas bizantinas en prosa. Albor, Buenos Aires.
  • 1946: Camino Incierto. Siglo XX, Buenos Aires.
  • 1960: Elbtado antártico y nuestras fuerzas armadas. BB, Optimus.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marcelo Olmos: Alberto Candioti retratado por Alfredo Guttero . El Litoral website, July 14, 2005, accessed March 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d Axel Gasquet: X. Ficciones apócrifas del oriente: La literatura orientalista de Alberto María Candioti. In: El llamado de oriente: Historia cultural del orientalismo argentino (1900-1950). EUDEBA, Buenos Aires 2016, ISBN 978-950-23-5898-7
  3. ^ A b Miguel Ángel De Marco: Universidad y política exterior. The formación de expertos y diplomáticos en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Comerciales y Políticas de Rosario, 1920-1968. In: CERIR (ed.): Cuadernos de Política Exterior Argentina. Issue 112, Rosario 2013, p. 13, ISSN  0326-7806 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Claudia Elena de Theissen: Candioti, Alberto M. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Verlag KG Saur, Berlin / Boston 2019, (accessed via de Gruyter Online).
  5. ↑ Harper Montgomery: Futurist Confrontations and Other Modes of Registering Modernity: Buenos Aires, 1924–1926. In: International Yearbook of Futurism Studies. Volume 7: 2017, Berlin / Boston De Gruyter, doi: 10.1515 / 9783110527834 , p. 67, (accessed via de Gruyter Online).
predecessor Office successor
Carlos Alberto Hogan y Costa Argentine Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1955–1964 		Manuel de Anchorena
personal data
SURNAME Candioti, Alberto María
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fournier, Almaca (pseudonym as painter)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine writer, painter and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario
DATE OF DEATH 1968