Hipólito Boaventura Caron

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Hipólito Boaventura Caron

Hipólito Boaventura Caron (born March 17, 1862 in Resende , Brazil, † May 15, 1892 in Juiz de Fora , MG, Brazil) was a Brazilian painter and decorator who belonged to the famous Grimm group .

Life

Vista da Gamboa no Rio de Janeiro 1882

Hipólito Boaventura Caron was the son of Clemente João Caron and Jesuína Maria da Cunha. Around 1874 he attended the Colégio Progresso in Juiz de Fora.

In February 1880, at the age of just 18, Caron enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (AIBA). Two years later (1882) he became a design teacher at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Rio de Janeiro, but continued to study at the AIBA at the same time with the German professor and landscape painter Johann Georg Grimm (* 1846; † 1887). He organized his first solo exhibition in 1883 in the town hall of Juiz de Fora (Minas Gerais). In July of the following year he left the Imperial Academy with his teacher Grimm and joined his group for open-air painting (later called “ O grupo Grimm ”). He was accompanied by Giovanni Battista Castagneto , Domingo Garcia y Vásquez , Antônio Parreiras and other young art students of the same generation. His work Praia da Boa Viagem (1884) received a gold medal at the 26th General Exhibition of Fine Arts .

Praia da Boa Viagem 1884
Poço Rico (paisagem em Juiz de Fora) 1890

Caron often stayed in Juiz de Fora in the state of Minas Gerais (MG) after he was appointed director of the local Academy of Arts and Crafts. From 1885 he also made some commissioned works including portraits. In April of the same year, thanks to the support of his family, he was able to go on a trip to Paris in order to get to know European landscapes and to deepen his knowledge. On painting trips through Normandy and Brittany, he studied with the famous painter Hector Hanoteau . He was in close contact with a friend from their time together in Grupo Grimm Domingo Garcia y Vásquez, who was also studying in Paris, and the Romantic painter Horácio Pinto da Hora , who came from Sergipe State .

In 1888 Caron returned to Rio de Janeiro. In March and May he did commissioned work in Juiz de Fora and from 1890 toured the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. In June of that year he took part in the General Exhibition of the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. Together with Giovanni Battista Castagneto, whom he had brought to Juiz de Fora, he exhibited in the administration building of the newspaper "O Farol" and decorated the old theater of Juiz de Fora.

In November he moved back to the interior of Minas Gerais, stayed for a while in Sabará and painted. Back in Juiz de Fora, from December 1891 to February he worked out the popular decorations for the Club Carnavalesco dos Sortistas. Then he went back to the south of the Minas and came back with yellow fever in April. On May 15, Caron died at the age of 30 after the disease suddenly worsened.

literature

  • Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy: The group Grimm: Brazilian landscape painting in the 19th century . Ed. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro October 1980 (Portuguese, Portuguese: O Grupo Grimm: Paisagismo Brasileiro no Século XIX.Análise critica e biografica de Johann Georg Grimm (1846-1887) e outros; PPN 266955371 in the web link BAM).
  • Ferreira Gullar, Donato Mello Jr .: 150 years of Brazilian painting . Colorama, Rio de Janeiro 1989 (Portuguese, Portuguese: 150 anos de pintura no Brasil .).

Web links

Commons : Hipólito Boaventura Caron  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c see short biography on Niterói Artes
personal data
SURNAME Caron, Hipolito Boaventura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caron, Hipolito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian painter and decorator
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Resende , RJ, Brazil
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1892
Place of death Juiz de Fora , MG, Brazil