Pedro Lira

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Pedro Lira
Pedro Lira, Carta de amor , Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile
Pedro Lira, Landscape , 1871

Pedro Lira Rencoret (born May 17, 1845 in Santiago de Chile , † April 20, 1912 there ) was a Chilean painter . He belongs to the generation of great Chilean masters such as Juan Francisco González , Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma and Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , whose main work was written around the turn of the 20th century.

Life

The Lira, who comes from a wealthy family, attended the Instituto Nacional in Santiago and, from the age of sixteen, took courses at the Academia de Pintura , directed by Alejandro Cicarelli . Until 1867 he studied law at the Universidad de Chile . Since 1865 he took lessons from the landscape painter Antonio Smith .

Lira became known through his participation in the national exhibition in 1872. In the following year he traveled to Paris with his wife Elena Orrego Luco and his brother-in-law, the painter Alberto Orrego Luco . He stayed there until 1884, perfecting his training in academic painting and creating mythological and history paintings .

In 1884 he returned to Chile. There he founded the Unión Artística with the sculptor José Miguel Blanco and organized the first Chilean art exhibition. With government support, he opened the Museo de Pintura in the Quinta Normal de Agricultura and became a member of the Comisión de Bellas Artes . He became known as an art critic, translated works of art history and published a Diccionario Biográfico de Pintores in 1902 . From 1892 until his death he was director of the Escuela de Bellas Artes

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Lira created over 500 paintings, from early landscape paintings influenced by Smith to academic history paintings to a socially critical realistic late work. With La Fundación de Santiago he won a silver medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 .

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