Alberto Valenzuela Llanos

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Portrait painted by Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, shows General Jorge Wood

Ramón Alberto Valenzuela Llanos (born August 29, 1869 in San Fernando , † July 23, 1925 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter .

Valenzuela studied from 1887 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Santiago, where Cosme San Martín , Juan Mochi and Pedro Lira were his teachers. In 1890 he received the bronze medal of the Salon Official of Santiago for his painting Puesta de sol en los Andes . From 1903 he taught drawing at the Liceo Luis Amunategui . In 1906 he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens . In 1910 he succeeded Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor as professor at the Academia de Bellas Artes . His students included u. a. Pedro Luna , Agustín Abarca and Arturo Gordon .

Valenzuela Llanos has received numerous awards for his works, including seven times the Premio del Certamen Edwards (1894, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1908, 1911 and 1914). The art critic Antonio Romera counted him along with Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma , Pedro Lira and Juan Francisco González to the group of the Grandes Maestros de la Pintura , the most important Chilean painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Works

  • Paisaje con cordillera
  • Valparaíso en 1895
  • Manzanillas en flor
  • Riberas del Mapocho
  • Cardenales de Algarrobo
  • Alrededores de Suresnes
  • El puente de Charenton

literature

  • José Vargas Badilla: El pintor Valenzuela Llanos. Rumbos, Santiago de Chile 1992.

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Commons : Alberto Valenzuela Llanos  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Valenzuela Llanos, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valenzuela Llanos, Ramón Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH San Fernando (Chile)
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1925
Place of death Santiago de Chile