Emilio Boggio
Emilio Boggio also Émile Boggio (born May 21, 1857 in La Guaira , † June 7, 1920 in Auvers-sur-Oise ) was a Venezuelan painter . Since his childhood he lived mainly in France, where he also received his artistic training. In his work, which includes portraits, interiors, still lifes and, above all, landscape paintings, he initially oriented himself towards academic art before turning to Impressionism , Symbolism and Pointillism around 1900 . Influenced by the admiration for Vincent van Gogh , Boggio's late work also shows expressionist traits. In Venezuela he is considered a pioneer of impressionism and his works can be found mainly in the museums of his home country, including a museum dedicated to him in Caracas.
life and work
Emilio Boggio was born in 1857 in the Venezuelan port city of La Guaira. His father Juan S. Boggio ran a trading company and had Italian ancestors, the family of Emilio Boggio's mother, Maria Josefa Zelie Dupuy, came from France. In 1864 Boggio came to Paris with his family at the age of seven and completed his schooling at the Lycée Michelet by 1870. In 1873 he returned to Venezuela and worked there in his parents' business until 1877. He then went back to Paris and enrolled at the Académie Julian , where he studied painting with the history painter Jean-Paul Laurens until 1883 . It was here that around 1883 he met the painter Henri Martin , with whom he became friends and who later influenced his work. The Venezuelan painters Cristóbal Rojas and Arturo Michelena , who also belonged to Boggio's circle of friends, also studied with Laurens .
Together with Henri Martin, Boggio went on a study trip to Italy in 1885. He made his debut at the Salon des artistes français in 1887 with the painting Portrait de femme (Portrait of a Lady) and from then on participated annually in these exhibitions. In the following year he received an honorable mention for the quality of his pictures . At the Paris World Exhibition of 1889 he was honored with a bronze medal for his work. In addition to painting, Boggio also devoted himself to caricature and took part in the caricaturist exhibition in the Salon Blanc et Noir in 1892 .
In addition to portraits and interiors in the academic style based on the model of his teacher Laurens, biblical themes such as the painting Death of St. Elizabeth , exhibited in 1894 , are among his motifs. In addition, works such as the compositions Vers la gloire (exhibited in the Salon des artistes français in 1897) have echoes of symbolism in the style of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes . The Salon des artistes français of 1899 earned him a second class medal and the hors concours award ( out of competition ). This enabled him to take part in the exhibition One Hundred Years of French Art , which took place during the Paris World's Fair in 1900 and where he was awarded a silver medal. At this time he met the painters Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro , who influenced his painting style towards impressionism . so that particularly successful representations of the lighting conditions can be found in his work. In addition to landscape paintings and pieces of flowers painted en plein air , melancholy atmospheric pictures such as Soir d'orage (Salon des artistes français 1901), La neige est triste (Salon des artistes français 1902) and Temps lourd (Salon des artistes français 1903) were created at the beginning of the century . The artist's oeuvre also includes several views of Paris, such as the painting Vista de París desde Montmartre from 1906 . He participated in the first Salon d'Automne in 1903 and took part in these exhibitions annually until 1918.
Boggio lived for some time in Enghien near Paris at the beginning of the 20th century , where Raymond Thibesart was his student. Together with Thibesart and Henri Martin, who like Boggio had Italian ancestors, he traveled to Italy in 1907, where they stayed until 1909. During the stay a large number of sea views were taken. While Boggio's painting style developed through the influence of Martin in the style of his contemporaries Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the direction of pointillism , his artistic expression changed again after his return from Italy. Boggio increasingly oriented himself towards the expressionist work of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, who had died 20 years earlier . So a show of Boggios known works, the 1912 at the Oise resulting paintings Fin de la Jornada ( of the day at the end ), significant parallels with the paintings of Van Gogh, which on the Rhone in 1888 Arles arose. Boggio's admiration for van Gogh went so far that in 1910 he settled in the last residence of the Dutchman in Auvers-sur-Oise and moved into the Villa Rustique . Around this time, Boggio was also interested in socialist ideas and he became friends with the co-founder of the newspaper L'Humanité , Jean Jaurès .
Boggio returned to his native Venezuela for the last time in 1919. The Academia de Bellas Artes de Caracas organized an exhibition with 53 paintings by Emilio Boggio, which he had brought from France. This exhibition contributed significantly to the development of modern painting in Venezuela and well-known artists such as Armando Reverón , Federico Brandt and Manuel Cabré were influenced by the work of Boggio's post-impressionist work.
Boggio was active as a painter until shortly before his death. In the last years of his life he often chose the valley of the Oise as a motif for his pictures , as he did in the 1920 picture Vue de l'Oise des Hauteurs de Valhermeil en Hiver . Emilio Boggio died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1920 at the age of 63. His grave is on the local Cimetière d'Auvers-sur-Oise, where his role model Van Gogh is also buried.
The gallery owner Georges Petit organized a retrospective of Boggio's work in Paris in 1925. After that, Boggio's work was forgotten for almost sixty years. That changed in 1973 when the Concejo Municipal del Distrito Federal acquired the Baptist Rinaldi collection . Rinaldi had acquired from the former property of Boggio's wife and children, in addition to personal items and photos, above all a collection of 77 oil paintings and 556 drawings by the artist. This collection formed the basis for the Museo Emilio Boggio, which was later founded in Caracas . For Emilio Boggio's 125th birthday, the Gobernación del Distrito Federal organized a major retrospective in Caracas in cooperation with the Galería de Arte Nacional in 1982. Besides the Museo Emilio Boggio, Boggio's works can be found in other Venezuelan collections such as the Museo Municipal de Venezuela (Mpal) , the Galería de Arte Nacional, and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas . His works are also part of the decor of the Salón de los Embajadores in the La Casona presidential palace . In France, the Musée Louis Senlecq in L'Isle-Adam and the Musée Camille Pissarro in Pontoise show works by Emilio Boggio.
literature
- Boggio, Emile . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 217 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Juan Calzadilla: Emilio Boggio. Ediciones Edime, Caracas 1968.
- Galería de Arte Moderno (ed.): Emilio Boggio, cincuentenario de su muerte, 1920–1970 (exhibition catalog). Galería de Arte Moderno, Caracas 1970.
- Albert Junyent: Boggio . Italgrafica, Caracas, 1970.
- Rafael Dominguez Sisco: Museo Emilio Boggio. Consejo Municipal del Distrito Federal, Caracas 1973.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boggio, Emilio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boggio, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Guaira |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1920 |
| Place of death | Auvers-sur-Oise |