Graciela Aranis
Graciela Aranis , occasionally Graciela Aranis-Valivia or Graciela Aranis-Brignoni , (born October 6, 1908 in Santiago de Chile , † December 12, 1996 in Bern , Switzerland ; resident in Breno ) was a Chilean painter. She also became known with her pseudonym Chela Aranis .
Life
Aranis came from a wealthy family, the painter María Aranis (1903–1966) was her older sister.
Aranis attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in her hometown and was among other things the student of Ricardo Richon Brunet . Later, with the help of her teacher, she was able to move to the Universidad de Chile to study painting with Juan Francisco González .
At the beginning of 1929 Aranis traveled to France to study in Paris at the Académie Scandinave of André Lhote and Marcel-Lenoir . Her teachers were enthusiastic and offered her the prospect of showing some of her pictures at the Exposició Internacional de Barcelona that same year . This project failed, but the opportunity arose to exhibit these pictures at the Exposición Iberoamericana in Seville as early as 1929 .
In 1935 Aranis married the Swiss painter Serge Brignoni in Paris and settled with him in Montmartre . In the spring of 1940 the couple used one of the last opportunities to travel to Switzerland. They settled in Bern and stayed there until the end of their lives. Aranis died at the age of 88. Her husband survived her by more than five years.
Aranis presented u. a. in the Kunsthaus Zürich , Kunstmuseum Solothurn , Bündner Kunstmuseum , Kunsthalle Bern and in the Helmhaus in Zurich .
literature
- Emmanuel Bénézit (original), Jacques Busse (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintre, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , vol. 1 . Édition Gründ, Paris 1999. ISBN 2-7000-3011-7 .
- Carla Burani Ruef: Graciela Aranis-Brignoni. (1908-1996) . Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel 2000 (exhibition catalog)
- Fred Zaugg: "A Berne, j'aimerais vivre ...". Graciela Aranis-Brignoni, the artist of silence and seclusion in memory . In: Bund , Jg. 146 (1996), No. 294, p. 7ff.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aranis, Graciela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aranis-Valivia, Graciela; Aranis-Brignoni, Graciela; Aranis, Chela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 12, 1996 |
| Place of death | Bern , Switzerland |