Benito Rebolledo

Benito Rebolledo Correa (born August 2, 1880 in Curicó , † June 29, 1964 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter .

Born into a peasant family, Rebolledo came to Santiago at the age of fifteen and joined the Colonia Tolstoyana , a group of intellectuals influenced by the ideas of Tolstoy and political anarchism. a. the writers Augusto D'Halmar , Fernando Santiván and Baldomero Lillo and the painters Julio Ortiz de Zárate , José Backhaus , Pablo Burchard Eggeling and Rafael Valdés included.

At the Escuela de Bellas Artes he then studied painting with Pedro Lira , Juan Francisco González and Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor . As a student of Sotomayor, he is counted among the painters of the Generacion del Trece . During his lifetime he had a number of solo exhibitions of his works in Santiago, Concepción and Buenos Aires. He has received several awards and in 1959 received the Premio Nacional de Arte . On his 100th birthday, the Instituto Cultural de Providencia in Santiago honored him with a retrospective of his works. Works by Rebolledo are among others. a. owned by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , the Art Gallery of the Universidad de Concepción and the Museo Historico Nacional .

Works

Cabeza de Niña
La Brisa del Mar
El Niño Taimado
Amanecer en Peñalolén
Niña frente al Mar
Mariscando
Niño comiendo Uvas
Obrero Salitrero

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personal data
SURNAME	Rebolledo, Benito
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rebolledo Correa, Benito (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Curicó
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1964
Place of death	Santiago de Chile