Armindo Teixeira Lopes

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Armindo Teixeira Lopes (* 1905 in Abreiro , Mirandela district , † 1976 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese painter .

Life

He only got a basic education and became a civil servant. He taught himself to draw and paint by himself, and he acquired knowledge of literature, geography, biology, chemistry and the French language. After working in his hometown from 1935 to 1948, he went to Lisbon, where he became an official at the State Audit Office, the then Tribunal de Recursos e Avaliações .

After retiring from the civil service, he went to Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where he decorated mansions and villas. In 1967 he went to Luanda , which was then overseas owned by Angola , and in 1968 to Mozambique , then also Portuguese. In 1972 he returned to Lisbon, where he died in 1976.

He was married and had a daughter and two sons. His sons Hilário Teixeira Lopes (* 1932) and Manuel Gil Teixeira Lopes (* 1936) also became painters, the latter in particular also gaining some international attention.

reception

His cross-style pictures were characterized by particularly warm colors, which is attributed to the influences of his stays in the tropical countries of Brazil, Angola and Mozambique.

His hometown opened the municipal museum Museu Municipal Armindo Teixeira Lopes in 1981 , housed in the Centro Cultural de Mirandela . Above all, the collection of his works donated by his sons formed the basis of the exhibits. Since then, the museum has developed into an art museum that has received international attention and now shows works by over 200 artists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography on the Museu Armindo Teixeira Lopes website , accessed on February 10, 2013
  2. ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, pp. 311/312 ( ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 )
  3. ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 302
  4. ↑ Museu municipal Armindo Teixeira Lopes at www.reisen.michelin.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 27, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lopes, Armindo Teixeira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Abreiro , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 1976
Place of death Lisbon