Joaquim José da França Júnior

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Joaquim José da França Júnior (born April 19, 1838 in Rio de Janeiro , † November 27, 1890 in Poços de Caldas , Minas Gerais , Brazil ) was a Brazilian lawyer , dramaturge , journalist and painter .

Life

França Júnior studied humanities at the Colégio Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro and completed his law degree at the Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo in 1862. After practicing law, he worked for a period in Bahia as secretary to the president of the provincial government there.

Around 1880 he returned to Rio de Janeiro and learned drawing and painting from the watercolor artist Benno Treidler . Encouraged by the experience of the new art, he went as an assistant to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA), where Johann Georg Grimm taught. When he left the academy in 1884, he accompanied the master and thus became a member of the Grimm group , which had come together to study painting in the great outdoors, plein air painting . The group of the German landscape painter only existed for a good two years.

In 1887, França Júnior held the post of guardianship judge for orphans and children growing up separated from their parents in Rio de Janeiro. In 1888 he traveled to Europe, came back the following year and exhibited his works in the Casa De Wilde. Caron (1862-1892), his friend and partner from the Grimm period, had a strong artistic influence. In parallel with its picturesque activities occurred França Júnior as a playwright and journalist as an art critic in the newspaper "Correio Mercantil", "O Paiz", "Gazeta de Notícias" and "Vida Fluminense" indicate where he is also the stylistic device of Crónicas served and life in Rio de Janeiro and the inhabitants, the "cariocas", described with a light pen.

He wrote several successful comedies for the theater, where he also brought the everyday life and customs of speculators, investors, pioneers and "fazendeiros" to the stage with realistic portrayals. His “As Doutoras” (Die Doktorinnen) from 1889 deals with the women's movement of that time in a satirical way.

His versatile artistic personality did not focus on painting. But because of their quality, his works are an integral part of the development of Brazilian landscape painting.

  • Landscape by the sea

  • Morro da Viúva, around 1888

  • Country house, around 1890

Academia Brasileira de Letras

After his death, França Júnior gave its name to seat 12 (Cadeira) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature, founded in 1897 on the model of the Académie Française . He is one of the so-called "immortals" (imortais) of the academy. The first chair owner (1897–1902) was the founding member Urbano Duarte de Oliveira .

Stage works

  • Meia Hora de Cinismo. 1861.
  • A república modelo. 1861.
  • Tipos da Atualidade. 1862.
  • Ingleses na Costa. 1864.
  • Amor com Amor se Paga. 1870.
  • O Defeito de Família. 1870.
  • O Tipo Brasileiro
  • Maldita Parentela
  • Entrei Para o Clube Jácome
  • Dois Proveitos em to Saco
  • A Lotação dos Bondes
  • Direito por Linhas Tortas
  • Beijo de Judas. 1881.
  • Como se fazia um deputado. 1881.
  • Caiu o ministerio. 1882.
  • As Doutoras. 1889.
  • De Petrópolis a Paris. 1889.
  • Portugueses às direitas. 1890.

His stage works were published in two volumes in Rio de Janeiro in 1980 under the title Teatro de França Júnior .

literature

  • Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy: O Grupo Grimm . Paisagismo Brasileiro no Século XIX. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1980 (Portuguese).

Web links

Commons : Joaquim José da França Júnior  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see biography at passeiweb
  2. ↑ Irwin Stern (Ed.): Dictionary of Brazilian literature. Greenwood Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-313-24932-6 , pp. 136-137.
  3. ↑ Hans-Otto Dill : History of Latin American Literature at a Glance. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009738-X , p. 168.
  4. ↑ Urbano Duarte de Oliveira in the Portuguese language Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME França Júnior, Joaquim José da
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian dramaturge, painter, journalist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1890
Place of death Poços de Caldas , MG, Brazil