Laureano Guevara

Laureano Manuel Ladrón de Guevara Romero (born June 18, 1889 in Molina , † November 21, 1968 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter .

Guevara began his training in Valparaíso as a student of Juan Francisco González . After studying law and architecture, he entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes , where he studied with José Mercedes Ortega , Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor , Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , Ricardo Richon Brunet and Pedro Lira . As a student of Sotomayor, he belongs to the group of painters of the Generación del Trece .

After his first solo exhibition in Santiago, Guevara traveled to Europe in 1924 and studied fresco painting and copper engraving at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . From 1926 he taught copperplate engraving at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Santiago. Together with Arturo Gordon , he decorated the national library with allegorical frescoes and in 1929 designed the Chilean pavilion at the Exposición Ibero-Americana in Seville, for which both were awarded First Prize.

As a representative of the painters group of the Generación de Veintiocho , which a decree of the President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo allowed to study in Europe, Guevara studied fresco and glass painting in 1930 at the art college in Copenhagen. From 1933 he was professor of wall painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes for twenty years .

Guevara was the first important exponent of fresco painting in Chile. He has received many awards for his work, most recently in 1967 with the Premio Nacional de Arte , the highest Chilean award for artists. Retrospectives of his works took place in Viña del Mar in 1996 and in 2008 in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago. Works by Guevara are among others. a. owned by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes , the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of the Universidad de Chile and the Universidad de Talca . The mural Trabajo y Familia del Obrero (1932) is in the old building of the Ministry of Justice.

Works

El Bote Blanco
Retrato de Henriette Petit
Figuras
Naturaleza Muerta
Cinco Croquis de Dibujos
Studio for a decor
Naturaleza Muerta
Alegorías de las Artes , fresco
Paisaje de la Costa
Tejido de Arauco
La Agricultura
La Minería
La Pesca
Paisaje desde el Cerro El Roble ,
Trabajo y Familia del Obrero , wall painting

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personal data
SURNAME	Guevara, Laureano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ladrón de Guevara Romero, Laureano Manuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 18, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Molina
DATE OF DEATH	November 21, 1968
Place of death	Santiago de Chile