Lagoa Henriques

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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.

Fernando Pessoas statue in front of Café A Brasileira in Lisbon, Henrique's most popular work

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 .

List of the winners of the 2nd Exhibition of Fine Arts of the Gulbenkian Foundation 1961

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Web links

Commons : Lagoa Henriques  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cloister website of the monastery website of the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  2. ^ Website on Lagoa Henriques at the University of Porto, accessed on April 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition. Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 , p. 268.
  4. ↑ detailed biography on the official website , accessed April 23, 2016.
  5. ↑ Lagoa Henriques in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on April 23, 2016.
  6. ^ Jorge Listopad, Lagoa Henriques: Outubro - Oriente / October - Orient. Edições Asa, Lisbon 1992, ISBN 972-41-0821-X .
personal data
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