Domingo García y Vásquez
Domingo García y Vásquez (* about 1859 in Vigo , Spain, † January 18, 1912 in Rio de Janeiro , RJ, Brazil) was a Brazilian painter of Spanish descent.
Life
García y Vásquez came to Brazil in 1871, when he was 11 to 12 years old, where his father owned a company in Rio de Janeiro. For five years, from 1879 to 1884, he studied at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA) and in the last two years developed into a brilliant student of the landscape painter Johann Georg Grimm . He left the traditionalist teaching of the academy with his mentor and became part of the artist group “ O grupo Grimm ”, later known for their studies of open-air painting in Niterói (RJ) .
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His time near Grimm was also his most successful: he received an award in 1880, a silver medal in 1881, a small gold medal and an honorable mention in 1882 and the second gold medal in 1884.
After the Grimm group dissolved, García y Vásquez went to France from 1885 to 1888 and studied for three years with Hector Hanoteau (* 1823–1890 ) and Henri-Joseph Harpignies (* 1819– † 1916). In 1905 he toured the Serra da Estrela, in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro and created paintings for the General Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1906.
After spending three years in Europe, García y Vásquez found that, inexplicably, his painting no longer attracted the same attention in Brazil as it did before. The naturally introverted artist fell into poverty and was plagued by self-doubt. Eventually he gave up the arts and got into fishing and long walks on the beach. On January 18, 1912, García y Vásquez put an untimely end to his life during the nightly screening of a cinema in Rio.
literature
- Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy : O Grupo Grimm . Paisagismo Brasileiro no Século XIX. Ed. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1980 (Portuguese).
- José Roberto Teixeira Leite: Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil . Artlivre, Rio de Janeiro 1988 (Portuguese).
- José Roberto Teixeira Leite: Pintores espanhois no Brasil . Espaço Cultural Sérgio Barcellos, São Paulo 1996 (Portuguese).
Web links
- Garcia y Vasquez . Biografia, Análise, Obras. In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileiras . São Paulo 2019, ISBN 978-85-7979-060-7 (Portuguese, entry in the Internet encyclopedia [accessed February 12, 2019]).
- Short biography of García y Vásquez on the website Bolsa de arte , Portuguese, last accessed on January 19, 2019
- Reminder on the 100th anniversary of the death of García y Vásquez by Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy , Portuguese, last accessed on January 21, 2019
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | García y Vásquez, Domingo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | García y Vásquez, Domingos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian painter of Spanish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vigo , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1912 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro , RJ, Brazil |