Grupo Montparnasse

Grupo Montparnasse was an avant-garde association of Chilean painters and sculptors.

The Grupo Montparnasse was founded in 1923 by Luis Vargas Rosas and Camilo Mori in Santiago de Chile . The two had met in Montparnasse ( Paris ), where they had both taken part in the annual exhibition of the Salon d'Automne in 1920 . Along with other artists from Chile - and other countries in South America - they studied classical painting and sculpture in France , but also dealt with Cubism and Post-Impressionism .

In the year of its founding in 1923, they were able to show an impressive retrospective in a controversially discussed exhibition in Santiago de Chile.

Members (selection)

Members of the Grupo Montparnasse (1945), a. a. José Perotti , Henriette Petit , Luis Vargas Rosas and Juan Emar

Graciela Aranis (1908-1996) Pablo Burchard Eggeling (1873-1960) Jorge Caballero (1902-1992) Isaías Cabezón (1891–1963) Hector Cáceres (1897–1980) Ana Cortés (1906-1998)

Augusto Eguiluz (1893–1969) Jorge Letelier Nuñez (1887–1966) Camilo Mori (1896–1973) Julio Ortiz de Zárate (1885-1943) Henriette Petit (1894–1983) José Perotti (1894-1956)

Inés Puyó (1906–1996) Luis Vargas Rosas (1897–1977) Pablo Vidor (1892-1991) Waldo Vila (1894–1979) Marta Villanueva (1900-1995) Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi (1893–1964)

literature

• Emmanuel Bénézit (term): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Vol. 6. 4th edition. Gründ, Paris 1999. ISBN 2-7000-3016-8 .
• Maximiliano Fuentes Codera (ed.): Ideas comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la politica . Ediciones Akal, Madrid 2018. ISBN 978-84-460-4573-1 .
• Instituto Cultural (ed.): Grupo Montparnasse y la renovación . Self-published, Santiago de Chile 1991.