Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira

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Júlio Maria dos Reis Pereira, artist name Júlio as a painter, pseudonym Saul Dias as a poet (born November 1, 1902 in Vila do Conde , Portugal , †  1983 ibid.) Was an important Portuguese painter and poet. In addition to his work as a painter, he also worked as a draftsman and illustrator. However, the brother of the writer José Régio was better known as a painter. He created important works of lyric expressionism in Portugal.

Life

Pereira only came to art later. He first trained as a civil engineer from 1919 onwards, completing his engineering studies in 1928 with a diploma. From 1919 to 1921 he attended the Escola de Belas Artes in Porto , but did not graduate as a student at the art school.

He began with latent painting in 1923, but had to interrupt the cycle he had begun for professional and health reasons. His first solo exhibition took place in 1935 at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes . Further solo and group exhibitions followed in Portugal. At the second Biennale of Modern Art in São Paulo he took part with his pictures as one of the representatives of Portugal. Unlike many Portuguese painters, however, he has never lived or trained abroad.

As a painter, Júlio was only well known in Portugal late, partly after a few retrospectives in the late 1970s and early 1980s through the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian .

Professionally, he worked all his life - as he could not make a living from his art despite his talent and even his internationally known brother - as an engineer for state building authorities, for a short time first in Coimbra , then in Évora . He lived in Évora from 1936 to 1972. He also lived in Porto for a long time. And at the end of his life back in his hometown of Vila do Conde .

painting

Júlio saw himself as an innovator and modernist of Portuguese art. He was a supporter of expressionism . Many of his pictures are colorful works that try to capture people's everyday lives. Many are also satirical and socially critical. The protection of women was particularly important to him, which was also expressed in some paintings; one showing a middle class woman who was beaten by her (very fat) husband. He also made fun of the double standards of the high Lisbon bourgeoisie, when in a very famous painting (probably his best-known) O burguês ea menina (1931) (“The Citizen and the Girl”) an extremely fat, rich man with a top hat and Shows walking stick standing in front of a completely naked, very young prostitute who is blushing with shame and is only dressed in a cloak. He wanted to represent the double standards and at the same time the moral decline of the country. Julio was one of the first painters in Portugal to paint female nudes . In general, nudity by women, rarely by men, is a frequent topic for him. As the brother of the writer José Régio, he illustrated numerous books by Régio, but also many magazine covers for Presença magazine . As a draftsman, it was above all the series “Poeta” that shows a young poet who travels through the country like a troubadour with a guitar and has amorous encounters with women in various pictures or begins to recite his verses everywhere. As a poet, he tied in with the representatives of Second Modernism in Portugal, especially his brother.

Trivia

  • As early as 1959, a short documentary entitled As pinturas do meu irmão Júlio about the painter and his pictures was made by Manoel de Oliveira . The speaker in the background was Júlio's brother José Régio.
  • By the end of his life, the quirky engineer had also become a collector of more than 350 dolls known as the “Bonecos de Estremoz ”. It was the largest private collection of dolls in Portugal and the only one in the country by a (adult) man.

Writings (as a poet)

  • Mais e Mais, 1932, poetry
  • Tanto, 1934, poetry
  • Ainda, 1938, poetry
  • Sanque, 1952, poetry
  • Obra poetica completa, 1980 (complete edition of his poetry)

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personal data
SURNAME Reis Pereira, Júlio Maria dos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Júlio (pseudonym); Dias, Saul (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese painter and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila do Conde , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 1983
Place of death Vila do Conde , Portugal