Antônio Parreiras

Antônio Parreiras around 1914

Ventania , Parreiras 1888 ( Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo )

Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreiras (born January 20, 1860 in Niterói , † October 17, 1937 ibid) was a Brazilian painter , draftsman and illustrator .

The 22-year-old Parreira came in 1882 in the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) of Rio de Janeiro , which he left in 1884 back to at the free painting course of the German professor Georg Grimm later ( O grupo Grimm called ) to participate. After his master left for the interior of Brazil (1885), he continued his studies in an autodidactic form.

In 1888 he traveled to Europe to perfect his technique at the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia (Academy of Fine Arts in Venice).

A conquista do Amazonas , Parreiras 1907 ( Museu Histórico do Estado do Pará )

Iracema , Parreiras 1909 ( Museu de Arte de São Paulo ).

After returning to Brazil (1890), he participated in the Exposição General de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. In the same year he became a professor of landscape painting at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes . He followed Grimm's teaching methods and took his students out into the great outdoors to paint. The works were exhibited in 1892. Sertaneja's painting gives a summary of the studies in the open air in the woods of Teresópolis .

From 1899 he received painting orders for historical episodes and produced several works for government palaces such as the Alegoria a Apollo e às Deusas das Horas in 1925 on the ceiling of the reception hall in the Palácio da Liberdade (Palace of Freedom) in Belo Horizonte . Among his historical works, Conquista do Amazonas (Conquest of the Amazon) and Lembrança da visita de Oscar I, rei da Suécia e Noruega (memory of the visit of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway) are noteworthy.

Fantasia
Antônio Parreiras 1909 ( Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo )

In addition to this topic, he devoted himself to the female nude, which he painted with great sensuality as in Flor brasileira , Fantasia and Frinéia .

Among the artists of the Belle Époque he was considered the most popular painter in Brazil in 1925. In 1926 he published his autobiography História de um Pintor contada por ele mesmo , with which he was accepted into the Academia Fluminense de Letras of the State of Rio de Janeiro. In 1933 he took part in the memorial exhibition Jubileu Artístico in São Paulo and in Niterói.

After he died in Niterói in 1937, the museum “ Museu Antônio Parreiras ” dedicated to him and his work was created in 1941 from his studio .

Awards

• 1918: Medalha de Ouro (gold medal) at the Exposição do Centenário da Independência ,
• 1918: Medalha de Honra (Medal of Honor) at the Exposição do Centenário da Independência ,
• 1922: Grande Medalha at the Exposição do Centenário da Independência ,
• 1929: Medalha de Ouro (gold medal) at the Exposição Universal de Barcelona in Spain.

literature

• Antônio Parreiras: História de um Pintor contada por ele mesmo Brasil-França 1881–1921 . Edição Vasconcellos, Niterói 1926.
• Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy : O Grupo Grimm. Paisagismo Brasileiro no Século XIX . Edição Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro 1980.
• Valéria Salgueiro: Antôni Parreiras. Notas e críticas, discursos e contos; coletânea de textos . UP, Niterói 2000, ISBN 85-228-0303-X .

Web links

Commons : Antônio Parreiras  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Antônio Parreiras. In: org.br. Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural(Brazilian Portuguese).