Giovanni Battista Castagneto
Giovanni Battista Felice Castagneto , also known as João Batista Castagneto , (born November 27, 1851 in Genoa , † December 29, 1900 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian painter from Italy who was known for his impressionist depictions of seascapes and coastal landscapes has been.
Life
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Italy and Brazil
In Italy Castagneto was a sailor like his father Lorenzo Di Gregorio Castagneto, with whom he came to Rio de Janeiro in 1874.
It is not known whether he attended academies or studios in Italy to study art. But he must have had a strong inclination for art, because this is the only way to understand why he tried to join the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts), or AIBA for short , in Rio .
The painter's well-known art researcher and biographer, Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy, discovered that Castagneto was already 23 when he wanted to enter the academy in 1877. However, since the entry age was limited to 17 years, the father pretended to have been living in Brazil since 1862 and that Giovanni Battista was only 16 years old. This is how the statement, which is still in doubt today, that Castagneto was born in 1862 came about. Therefore, he died at almost 50 years of age, not just 38.
So it was not a youth but a full-grown man who settled in Brazil. As the exams he took in the academy show, he had an insecure level of education that bordered on illiteracy. Nevertheless, he was accepted as a listener and was able to attend the courses from 1878 to 1884, among others with the masters Zeferino da Costa and Victor Meirelles .
He was also instructed by Johann Georg Grimm from 1882 and 1884 and followed the German landscape painter when he left the academy and opened his studio in the open air at Praia da Boa Viagem in Niteroi . In the meantime, in 1883, he assisted João Zeferino da Costa in making two decorative paintings in the Igreja da Candelária church in Rio de Janeiro.
“Gruppe Grimm” and time as a teacher
Castagneto was a member of the O Grupo Grimm group of artists, which was important for the development of Brazilian painting .
He taught art at the Academy of Arts and Crafts (Liceu de Artes e Ofícios) of Rio de Janeiro and at the Lizeum of Niterói. He had his first own art exhibition in Rio de Janeiro in 1886.
France
In 1890 he traveled to France and stayed first in Paris and then until 1893 in the region of the port city of Toulon to further develop his painting. The painter Frédéric Montenard (1849–1926) recommended that he study with the painter of seascapes François Nardi (1861–1936). In the year after his return, Castagneto exhibited the works he had created in Toulon in a solo exhibition at the state art school ENBA and, alongside José Pancetti , who also came from Italy, was already an important painter of seascapes and coastal landscapes. Castagneto's painting style shows influences from Romanticism to Realism and Impressionist features.
Works
Castagneto's paintings can be found in Genoa, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Toulon and Santos.
- Pictures by Giovanni Battista Castagneto
Niterói, marinha com barcos
Marinha 1885-86
Navio ancorado 1886
Tarde em Toulon (França) 1893
literature
- Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy : O Grupo Grimm . Paisagismo brasileiro no seculo XIX. Ed. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1980 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy: Giovanni Battista Castagneto (1851-1900) . O pintor do mar. Ed. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1982 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- Gonzaga Duque: A arte brasileira . Pintura e esculptura. H. Lombaerts, Rio de Janeiro 1888 (Brazilian Portuguese, new edition at Mercado de Letras, Campinas 1995).
- Roberto Pontual: Dicionário das artes plásticas no Brasil . Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro 1969, p. 117-118 (Brazilian Portuguese).
Web links
- Biography of Castagnetos on Enciclopedia Itau Cultural
- Portrait of Giovanni Battista Castagneto on dezenovevinte
- Biography Giovanni Battista Castagneto on bolsadearte ( Memento from October 25, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
More pictures available online
- Enciclopedia Itaú Cultural
- bolsadearte
- about 50 works ( Memento from December 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- and about 35 other works ( Memento from April 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- other
- entresseio.blogspot.com: Vista de Rua em Paris ( Memento of October 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castagneto, Giovanni Battista |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Castagneto, Giovanni Battista Felice (full name); Castagneto, João Batista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian-Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1900 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |