Martin Rico y Ortega

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Martín Rico y Ortega - Venetian lagoon near the church of Santa Maria della Salute

Martín Rico y Ortega (born November 12, 1833 in Madrid , † April 13, 1908 in Venice ) was a Spanish impressionist painter . He was one of the few outstanding Spanish landscape painters at the time . His detailed and atmospheric works often also reflect the architecture . Rico y Ortega was able to capture even the hustle and bustle of several people with his photo-realistic memory in his pictures. His technique mixed the art of the panorama painters of the 19th century with that of the vedute painters of the 18th century. In some cases he also used hyperrealism by changing perspectives of buildings in order to make them more recognizable. Rico y Ortega was one of the first in situ landscape painters - so he did not paint in the studio . He became internationally known for his numerous pictures of his chosen city of Venice .

Life

Martín Rico y Ortega was born in El Escorial , Madrid, grew up in a family of artists and was let by his brother Bernardino Rico [* 1825; † 1894] to train as an engraver . Rico y Ortega began studying art painting in Madrid at the Escuela de Bellas Arte de San Fernando (today: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando ) under the supervision of Prof. Jenaro Pérez Villaamil , the first landscape painter at this art academy, and Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz . Early works by Rico y Ortega show influences from romantic landscape painting, in the style of Jenaro Pérez Villaamil, David Roberts and Joseph Mallord William Turner . Supported by scholarships, he also studied in Rome and Paris . He was supported and inspired by the Barbizon School by Charles-François Daubigny , Eduardo Zamaçois y Zabala and Ernest Meissonier . From 1860 on, Rico y Ortega toured Europe, especially Brittany, Switzerland and England, and settled in Paris. He also worked as the art director of La Ilustración Española y Americana magazine . During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 he returned to Spain. He then settled permanently in Venice, but also traveled through Spain and often to Paris. His last artistic phase was now shaped by the influence of Mariano José Bernardo Fortuny y Marsal . Martín Rico y Ortega died in Venice at the age of 74, his tomb is there on the Cimitero di San Michele.

Awards

Martín Rico y Ortega has received several awards, including a. In 1862 with the Prix ​​de Rome , which was awarded to a landscape painter for the first time. From 1864 he exhibited his works regularly in the Paris Salon , where he was awarded a prestigious silver medal in 1866. In 1878 he received a bronze medal at the Paris World Exhibition and the special honor of Chavalier de la Légion d'honneur , at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 he received a silver medal.

Works (excerpt)

Works by Martín Rico y Ortega can be viewed in several prestigious museums:
Museo del Prado in Madrid, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum in New York City, The Art Institute of Chicago , Currier Gallery of Art in New Hampshire, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri, Minneapolis Institute of Arts , The Walters Art Museum in Maryland.
Martín Rico y Ortega signed his pictures with Rico (in several different spellings), he never created very large works (typical " Rico s" have dimensions of 28 × 17 inches ).

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - A canal in Venice

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - San Giovane Canal

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - Sight of Venice

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - Scenery of a Venetian canal

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - Along the Venetian Canal

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - The Lady's Tower from the Alhambra

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - View of Paris from El Trocadero

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - The washerwomen of Varenne

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - The Pont Vert

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - Sight of the Palazzo Cavalli and Palazzo Barbarigo on the Grand Canal

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - The village of Cartres

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - View of the Santa Maria della Salute

  • Martín Rico y Ortega - The mouth of the Bidasoa

  • Martín Rico Ortega - The sewing school

  • Martín Rico Ortega - Venetian fishermen in front of distant view of San Marco

  • Martín Rico Ortega - Garden of the Palazzo Vendramin

  • Martín Rico Ortega - A gondola on the Grand Canal

literature

  • AG Temple, Modern Spanish Painting (London, 1908)
  • Elizabeth du Gué Trapier, Martín Rico y Ortega in the Collection of the Hispanic Society of America (New York, 1937)
  • American Art Association, Illustrated Catalog of the Private Collection of Modern Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings Collected by the Late Alexander Blumenstiel (New York, 1906)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f An electronic version of Modern Spanish Painting (by AG Temple) is available from Open Library
  2. ↑ a b c Biography of Martín Rico y Ortega from the REHS gallery
  3. ↑ Description of the view of Paris from El Trocadero on the online gallery of the Museo Nacional del Prado (View of Paris)
  4. ↑ a b Biographies of some artists on ART / 4 / 2DAY
  5. ↑ See the Spanish-language Wikipedia page on Martín Rico
  6. ^ Overview by Rico y Ortega on ARTCYCLOPEDIA

Web links

Commons : Martín Rico y Ortega  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Pictures by Martín Rico y Ortega on Wikigallery.org
List of some museums where works a. a. by Martín Rico y Ortega can be viewed online and there is more information:

personal data
SURNAME Rico y Ortega, Martín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rico, Martín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1908
Place of death Venice