Onofre Jarpa

Onofre Jarpa Labra (born June 12, 1849 in Villa de Alhué , † February 15, 1940 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean painter.

Life

Jarpa began his training at Salustio Carmona when he was fifteen . From 1866 he studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Santiago with Alejandro Ciccarelli and Ernst Kirchbach . He was also a student of Antonio Smith . In 1881 he traveled to Europe as a scholarship holder of the Chilean government. There he took lessons with Francisco Pradilla in Spain and with Marco Calderini in Italy , visited the Montserrat monastery and toured Palestine and Lebanon.

After his return to Chile he was best known as a landscape and portrait painter. His works have been shown at numerous exhibitions in Chile, Argentina, France and Spain. In 1910 he was awarded a gold medal at the Exposición Internacional de Santiago . A retrospective of his work organized by the Instituto Cultural de Las Condes in Santiago in 1975. A large number of his paintings is owned by the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes .

His many students, whom he gave private lessons, included José Tomás Errázuriz , Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , Eugenio Guzmán Ovalle , Manuel Aspillaga , Gustavo Carrasco , Jorge Délano , Guillermo Olea , Manuel Cerda and Elena Calvo .

Works

Palmas de Ocoa
Laguna de Aculeo
Paisaje de Alhué
Retrato de la Señora Josefina Lira de Barros
En las Cordilleras de Chillán
Crisantemos
Palmas de Ocoa
Tanhume
Las Termas de Chillan
Cordillera de Petorca
Paisaje Cordillerano
Araucarias
Paisaje Palmeras
Paisaje
Paisaje de Palmeras
Palmas de Cocalan
Araucarias
Paisaje de Lo Orrego

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Jarpa, Onofre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jarpa Labra, Onofre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean painter
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villa de Alhué
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1940
Place of death	Santiago de Chile