Mario Eloy

The painter Mario Eloy

Mário Eloy de Jesus Perreira (born March 15, 1900 in Algés , † September 5, 1951 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese modern painter. He was also active in Germany .

Life

Mário Eloy was born into a family of goldsmiths. After a brief visit to the Escola de Belas Artas (School of Fine Arts), he stayed in Madrid in 1919. In 1924 he had his first solo exhibition. He lived in Paris from 1925 to 1927. In 1927 he traveled to Berlin for the first time , until 1931 he always commuted between Berlin and Lisbon, also published in Flechtheim's "Der Cross Section" and also had various exhibitions in Berlin. From 1932 he stayed permanently in Lisbon and never returned to Germany. His wife, son and a number of his pictures stayed in Berlin. In 1935 he received the Premio Souza-Cardoso , one of the highest art prizes in Portugal.

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Mental Illness Eloys

Mário Eloy was admitted to a mental institution in 1945. Melancholy tendencies have always been known to him, but they only broke out later. He was an extremely sensitive and at the same time strong personality. It can be assumed that he suffered from depression . In the broadest sense, Eloy can also be described as the “Fernando Pessoa of painting”, because his works reflect the inner resistance and labyrinths in the artist's psyche.

Works

Eloy's oeuvre has a wide variety of themes: in addition to simple scenes from the people, his work includes pictures of harlequins and clowns as well as disturbing pictures that depict the artist's interior. His work belongs to Cubism as well as Expressionism , but above all it bears his personal signature. The social has always been of great importance in his work.

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• "Portugal's Modernism - 1910-1940", catalog for the exhibition, 1997; Homepage Centro de Arte Moderno- Museu José de Azeredo Perdigão .