Georgina de Albuquerque

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucílio and Georgina de Albuquerque
Portrait by Lucílio de Albuquerque, 1907, oil on canvas, 61 × 50 cm

Georgina Moura Andrade Albuquerque (born February 4, 1885 in Taubaté , † August 29, 1962 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian impressionist painter , graphic artist and art college teacher. She became known for her landscape and genre paintings.

Life

She was born in Taubaté, a place inland in what was then the province of São Paulo . In Taubaté, she received fifteen year 1900 first painting and basic lessons with the Italian painter Rosalbino Santoro , a teacher at the arts and crafts school Liceu de Artes e Ofícios de São Paulo , which also contacts with the plein-air painters of Grupo Grimm entertained . In 1904 she moved to Rio de Janeiro and enrolled at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA). Here she first took lessons from Henrique Bernardelli . There she met Lucílio de Albuquerque and married him in 1906. Lucílio had received the Prêmio Viagem on the occasion of the Exposição Geral de Belas Artes exhibition in 1906 , a multi-year travel grant for Europe. In the same year the couple traveled to Paris , where both enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the Académie Julian . Georgina received lessons from the painters Paul Gervais , known for his allegories, Victor-Oscar Guétin , the American Oscar Miller, Adolphe Déchenaud and Henri Royer .

Lucílio de Albuquerque created an oil portrait of her in 1907, which is now in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo .

In 1911 she returned to Rio de Janeiro and subsequently had various solo and group exhibitions. In 1927 she was appointed art teacher at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, where she taught artistic drawing until 1948. In 1940, after the death of her husband, she founded the Museu Lucílio de Albuquerque . From 1952 to 1954 she was director of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes.

Exhibitions

  • 1977: Exposição Lucílio e Georgina de Alberquerque. Em comemoração ao centenário de nascimento de Lucílio de Albuquerque. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes , Rio de Janeiro

Works

Sessão do Conselho de Estado que Decidiu a Independência. 210 × 265 cm, oil on canvas, 1922.

literature

  • Exposição Lucílio e Georgina de Alberquerque. Em comemoração ao centenário de nascimento de Lucílio de Albuquerque. Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Fundação Nacional de Arte, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro 1977. (exhibition catalog).
  • Francisco Acquarone, Adão de Queiroz Veira: Primores da pintura no Brasil. 2nd Edition. Rio de Janeiro 1942.
  • Roberto Pontual: Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil. Texto Mário Barata, Lourival Gomes Machado, Carlos Cavalcanti et al. Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro 1969, pp. 9-10.
  • José Roberto Teixeira Leite: Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil. Artlivre, Rio de Janeiro 1988.
  • Constantino Cury: Dicionário de artistas plásticos brasileiros. Cury Arte Brasil, São Paulo 2005, pp. 311-313.
  • Arte no Brasil. Uma historia na Pinacoteca de São Paulo, guia de visitação. Pìnacoteca do Estado, São Paulo 2011.
  • Adelaide de Souza Andrade: Croquis e intensificações da luz: a linguagem pictórica de Georgina de Albuquerque e as possibiliades expressivas de seu tempo. In: Flora Süssekind, Tânia Dias, Carlito Azevedo (ed.): Vozes femininas. Gênero, mediações e práticas de escrita. 7 letras, Rio de Janeiro 2003, ISBN 85-7577-026-8 , pp. 293-300.
  • Daryle Williams: Culture Wars in Brazil. The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945. Duke University Press, Durham & London 2001, p. 263.

Web links

Commons : Georgina de Albuquerque  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
personal data
SURNAME Albuquerque, Georgina de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albuquerque, Georgina Moura Andrade (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian impressionist painter, graphic artist and art college teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Taubate
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1962
Place of death Rio de Janeiro