Enrique de Larrañaga

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Enrique de Larrañaga (born March 19, 1900 in San Andrés de Giles , † July 29, 1956 in Buenos Aires ) was one of the outstanding traditional painters of Argentina .

life and work

Enrique José de Larrañaga was on March 19, 1900 in San Andres de Giles in the province of Buenos Aires , the son of Basque born immigrants. From 1916 he studied art at the National College of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, where he was professor of drawing from 1921.

At the end of 1924 Larrañaga traveled to Europe and visited Italy, France, Belgium, England and Spain, where he stayed for several years. He lived and worked in Cordoba and Madrid . In 1926 he was awarded at the Venice Biennale . In 1931 he returned to Buenos Aires. In the following years he received several national awards in Argentina, including the 1936 Grand Prix des Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales for the picture Entre telones (Behind the Scenes) .

In 1937 he married Isabel Roca. In the same year the picture Mi esposa (My wife) was created , for which Larrañaga was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition . In 1945 Larrañaga became director of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "Prilidiano Pueyrredón" in Buenos Aires.

Larrañaga's artistic career was marked by different phases in which he used different traditional techniques in his pictures. Mainly portraits, still lifes and landscapes were created. The surroundings of the city of Tandil in particular inspired him to create numerous works. The world of the circus and its characters, especially the clowns, characterize the last stage of his work.

As a supporter of Peronism , Larrañaga was politically persecuted as a Peronist artist and painter of the regime after the military coup in September 1955 . His works have been removed from public collections. Several of his paintings, including portraits of Juan Perón and Eva Perón , were believed to have been destroyed.

Enrique de Larrañaga died on July 29, 1956 in Buenos Aires. Although Larrañaga was one of the most awarded Argentine artists in the first half of the twentieth century, he was quickly forgotten after his death.

From December 17, 2013 to February 28, 2014, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires presented Larrañaga's work in a comprehensive retrospective .

Web links

literature

  • Raul Rubianes: Enrique de Larrañaga . Ediciones Peuser, sa, Buenos Aires 1945.
  • Bernardino de Pantorba: Historia y crítica de las Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes celebradas en España [1948] . Jesús Ramón García-Rama, Madrid 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who's Who in Latin America: Part V, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay . P. 150. Full text / preview in Google Book Search
  2. ^ Museo Nacional del Prado: Enciclopedia online. In: museodelprado.es. Retrieved March 24, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Texto Crítico: Larrañaga 17 de diciembre de 2013 | Art informado. In: arteinformado.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ El rescate de un gran pintor que supo abrazar la causa peronista - Tiempo Argentino | Es tiempo de un diario nuevo. In: tiempo.infonews.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Enrique De Larrañaga. In: mnba.gob.ar. Retrieved March 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Larrañaga, Enrique de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH San Andrés de Giles
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1956
Place of death Buenos Aires