Lagoa Henriques
António Augusto Lagoa Henriques (born December 27, 1923 in Lisbon , † February 21, 2009 there ) was a Portuguese sculptor and university professor.
Life
After a short stay at the Lisbon Film School of the National Conservatory ( Conservatório Nacional , today Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema ), Henriques studied from 1945 at the Porto Art School ( Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto ) a. a. at Barata Feyo . In 1954 he graduated with a top grade of 20.
In 1958 he got an assistant professorship for sculpture at the Porto Art School, which he took up in 1959. In 1960 a scholarship took him to Italy for three years, particularly to Milan to work with Marino Marini . After his return in 1963, he taught drawing at the Art School in Porto from October of that year until he became a professor at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa in Lisbon (today Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculdade de Belas-Artes of the University of Lisbon ) in January 1966. .
After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the courses at his university were reorganized, and Henriques was involved in creating the Visual Communication course .
From 1982 to 1984 he took over coordination tasks at the Instituto Português do Património Cultural (today part of the monument protection authorities) before he retired in 1987. In 1985 he created the grave of Fernando Pessoas in the Hieronymites Monastery in Lisbon ( UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983 ).
He now turned increasingly to drawing. In addition, he took occasional visiting professorships, most recently in 2008 at the University of Lisbon.
In 2009 Lagoa Henriques died in his hometown Lisbon after a long illness.
As Henriques occasionally affirmed, he would have liked to have been an actor. The change between different personalities fascinated him. B. explained in the discussions in 1993 from which the video library of the Lisbon City Council produced a documentary on the life of Lagoa Henriques in 1994, as part of the work on the European Capital of Culture 1994. Henriques played a supporting role in 1987 (as Father Frei Hilarião) in José Álvaro Morais ' Film " O Bobo ", which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival .
Occasionally he also worked as a draftsman and illustrator, for example for the Asian travelogues by the author and director Jorge Listopad .
Awards (selection)
- 1954: Prémio António Soares dos Reis
- 1954: 1st medal for sculpture, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes
- 1958: Medal of Honor at the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels
- 1961: 1st Prize for Sculpture at the II. Exhibition of Fine Arts of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( II Exposição de Artes Plásticas da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian )
- 1988: Order of Merit of the Republic of Portugal , Grand Cross awarded on Portugal Day , June 10, 1988 by President Mário Soares
Works (selection)
Fernando Pessoas statue in front of
Café A Brasileira (Lisbon, 1988)Gravestone Fernando Pessoas in the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, 1985)
Encontro entre o Ocidente eo Oriente ("Encounter between West and East") in front of St. Paul's Church in Macau
Statue " Sissis " in Funchal (2000)
Statue of King Sebastian in Esposende (1972)
A Conquista de Ceuta ("The Conquest of Ceuta "; Porto, 1960)
Statue of Guerra Junqueiros
(Lisbon, 1968)Monument to the national poet Luís de Camoes in Constância
- Design of the Restauradores underground station and its southern porch
- Figure of St Anthony in the Igreja de Santo António (Moscavide) church
- Statue of Alves Redol in Vila Franca de Xira
- Statue of José Ferreira Borges in the Palácio da Justiça (Porto)
Web links
- Official website
- Profile of Lagoa Henriques at the University of Porto
- Lagoa Henriques in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lagoa Henriques contado por ele - “Lagoa Henriques, told by itself” , documentary from the Lisbon city video library, recorded on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ cloister website of the monastery website of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos , accessed on April 23, 2016.
- ^ Website on Lagoa Henriques at the University of Porto, accessed on April 23, 2016.
- ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition. Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 , p. 268.
- ↑ detailed biography on the official website , accessed April 23, 2016.
- ↑ Lagoa Henriques in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on April 23, 2016.
- ^ Jorge Listopad, Lagoa Henriques: Outubro - Oriente / October - Orient. Edições Asa, Lisbon 1992, ISBN 972-41-0821-X .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Henriques, Lagoa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henriques, António Augusto Lagoa (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1923 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |
DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 2009 |
Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |