Luis Vargas Rosas

Luis Vargas Rosas (born October 18, 1897 in Osorno , † September 6, 1977 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter.

Vargas began studying at the Escuela de Derecho of the Universidad de Chile in 1915 , but then switched to the Escuela de Bellas Artes , where he studied with Juan Francisco González , Pedro Luna and José Caracci until 1918 . From 1919 to 1923 he traveled with Camilo Mori through France, Italy and Germany. He continued his studies at the Academy Hoffmann in Munich, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière of the Académie Colarossi and got to know the painters Pablo Picasso , Fernand Léger and Giorgio de Chirico .

After returning to Chile, he founded the avant-garde Grupo Montparnasse in Santiago de Chile with his friends Camilo Mori , José Perotti , Henriette Petit and the brothers Julio and Manuel Ortiz de Zárate , which exhibited at the Salón de Santiago in 1925 with great success . Between 1924 and 1927 he wrote for the art website of La Nación de Santiago . In 1928 he created the illustrations for Agustín Edwards three-volume History of Chile.

From 1925 Vargas lived again in Paris. There he studied printmaking in Bill Hayter's studio and was interested in the works of the cubist Juan Gris . In 1927 he married Henriette Petit. He organized art exhibitions in various European countries, wrote for the Paris press Extrangere and the Stockholm art magazine Konstrevy .

After the German occupation of France, he returned to Chile, where he was director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes until 1970 , whose collection includes several of his works.

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SURNAME	Vargas Rosas, Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osorno
DATE OF DEATH	September 6, 1977
Place of death	Santiago de Chile