Arthur Nísio

Artur José Nísio (born May 15, 1906 in Curitiba ; † April 26, 1974 ibid) was a Brazilian painter and graphic artist who became known as an animal painter and worked in Germany and the Brazilian state of Paraná .

Life

Arthur José Nisio was the first-born son of Julius Reginato Nísio (actually Nizzo ) of Italian descent and Inês Reimann of German descent . From 1918 to 1923 the family lived in Porto Alegre . At the age of 17, Nísio received a scholarship from the local director, art professor Libindo Ferrás , at the Instituto de Belas Artes do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre. In 1924 he returned to Curitiba and was a student of Lange de Morretes until 1929 . Between 1925 and 1927 he visited João Turin's studio as a student of sculpture and plastic design .

He was part of the Movimento Paranista and published 15 illustrations in the cultural magazine Illustração Paranaense from 1927 to 1930 . From May 1 to 16, 1928 he held his first solo exhibition at Rua XV de Novembro in Curitiba. The governor at the time, Afonso Camargo , who attended the show, acquired two paintings. Due to the success of the exhibition, Nísio received state and municipal subsidies to continue his studies in Europe . He left Brazil on June 3, 1928 to be the first to travel to Germany.

There he attended a drawing course with Max Bergmann . At the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , he attended the advanced class for animal painting by Angelo Jank . In 1931, while still a student, Nísio exhibited for the first time at the German Art Exhibition in Munich in the Glaspalast . After receiving the scholarship, he studied for another seven years at Max Bergmann's painting school with a focus on image composition and figurative work, nude painting, landscape and still life. In 1934 he studied "Figures in the Landscape" with Albert Haueisen and Eugen Osswald in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Difficult years began for Nísio with the Second World War. He was questioned by the Gestapo and forced to send five works to censorship in order to obtain further work permits as a painter. In 1938 and 1942 he exhibited together with other artists a. a. in Baden-Baden in front of an international audience. On October 5, 1940, he married Katharina Wöschler (1918–1972), born in Wörth am Rhein . Inspired by his wife, he created a large number of works, all of which have disappeared because he was forced to leave Munich in a hurry because of the heavy bombing raids. In 1942 his only daughter, Gudrun, was born. In 1943 he was banned from working and was called up for labor service in agriculture. To get his wife and daughter to safety, he fled to Haimhausen on December 12, 1944 , near Munich, where he stayed until the end of the war. In this escape, he lost all of the fortune that he had built up in Europe over 18 years.

Nísio then moved to France with his family and spent almost a year in the Beaune-la-Rolande refugee camp , from where they wanted to travel to South America. In Paris he sold his coat to buy paints and brushes, his girlfriend Donna Maria Hertel gave him pure linen and he painted everything from still lifes to fashion drawings with or without clothes. He also received an offer to work as a jewelry designer, but turned it down. Nísio's only wish was to return to Brazil, which he succeeded in 1946. Although completely penniless, he was able to continue working as a visual artist with the support of his parents, brothers and friends.

Nísio was a founding member of the Paraná University of Music and Art (EMBAP) in Curitiba. In 1964 he was appointed professor for the chair of sculptural design. After his departure, he took over the chair for figurative drawing from Guido Viaro, which he held for a long time.

Seriously ill, Nísio spent the last few months in the hospital. Back home, he didn't give up his job. He worked under palliative care in a specially arranged place in his apartment until two weeks before his death. On April 26, 1974, he died of a stroke.

In his homeland, Curitiba, a street was named after him. Likewise in Wörth am Rhein, where three generations of animal painters met at the same time: Nísio himself, his teacher Max Bergmann and in turn his teacher Heinrich von Zügel , who all worked there at the same time. If you add the Palatinate painters Haueisen and Osswald who live nearby, the result is a loose, mutually inspiring group of artists. Nísio's connection with Wörth is not just the place of his wife's birth, but also diverse artistic connections and creative periods.

Works (selection)

• Tamandaré , Imprensa Paranaense, Curitiba
• Chegada de Zacarias de Góes e Vasconcellos , Museu Coronel Davi Antônio da Silva Carneiro, Curitiba (State commission for a history picture for the centenary of Paranás, 1953, unfinished)
• Carneiros , Museu Nacional de Belas Artes , Rio de Janeiro
• A Tomada de Monte Castelo , Colégio Estadual de Curitiba

Exhibitions

Brazil

• 1947, 1950, 1953: 4th, 7th, 10th Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes, Curitiba

posthumously

• 1976: Retrospectiva Arthur Nisio , Banco de Desenvolvimento do Paraná SA, Curitiba
• 1986: Tradição / Contradição , Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Paraná, Curitiba (group exhibition)
• 1988: Gravadores Paranaenses das Décadas de 50/60 , Museu Municipal de Arte, Curitiba (group exhibition)
• 1991/1992: Museu Municipal de Arte: acervo , from the museum collection of the Municipal Art Museum (group exhibition)
• 2001: A Paisagem Paranaense & Seus Pintores , Casa Andrade Muricy, Curitiba (group exhibition on Paranaensic landscape painting)

literature

• Walmir Ayala (Ed.): Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. MEC / INL, Brasília 1977. Volume 3: M a P, p. 264.
• Ângela Wanke: Arthur Nísio. Vida, obra e beleza. Life, work and beauty. Posigraf, Curitiba 2003, ISBN 85-87267-04-3 .

Web link

• Arthur José Nisio on artnet
• Arthur Nísio . In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arthur José Nisio at artnet
2. ↑ Luis Afonso Salturi: Gerações de artistas plásticos e suas práticas: Sociologia da arte paranaense das primeiras décadas do século XX . Curitiba 2011, p. 163–166 (Brazilian Portuguese, academia.edu [accessed October 12, 2018]).
3. ↑ Luis Afonso Salturi: O Movimento Paranista ea revista Illustração Paranaense . In: Temáticas (UNICAMP) . No. 22 (43) , 2014, pp. 127–158 (Brazilian Portuguese, academia.edu [accessed October 12, 2018]).