Rómulo Aguerre

Rómulo Aguerre (born May 30, 1919 in Montevideo , Uruguay , † November 2002 ibid) was a Uruguayan photographer.

Born in Barrio Sur , Montevidean , Aguerre first learned painting and drawing from his uncle, the painter and draftsman Ricardo Aguerre, and was an autodidact in photography. From 1933 he worked for the daily newspaper El Pueblo . Depending on the sources, he opened his first photo studio in Montevideo's Calle Maldonado in 1934 or 1937 . In 1968 he first set up an art gallery on Calle Colonia in Montevideo, followed two years later by another in Punta del Este .

Aguerre took part in national and international exhibitions almost every year between 1953 and 1988. His works have been shown in Germany , Austria , Belgium , Portugal , Italy , Finland , Spain , Poland , the USA , Argentina and Brazil, among others. For the first time he exhibited his works in 1954 in Montevideo in a solo exhibition. Almost 20 other solo exhibitions followed, including 50 Años - Retrospectiva in 1994, also in his hometown. In 1954 he won first prize in the international photo art competition in San Pablo. In 1957 he received the gold medal of the Primer Salón Rioplatense del Retrato in Buenos Aires. Ten years later, FIAP awarded the EFIAP, Excellence FIAP award . At the 18th National Salon of Plastic Art in Montevideo, he was awarded the Premio Adquisición in 1969 , which he received three years later as part of the 20th Municipal Salon. The Alliance française in Uruguay recognized him as the best of the year in 1977 in photography . The following year he was awarded first prize at the 26th Municipal Salon of Plastic Art in Montevideo. In 1984 he also won first prize in the plastic art competition organized by the Inter-American Development Bank .

Aguerre's works can be found in the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV), the Museo Juan Manuel Blanes (MJMB) and the Museo de Artes Plasticas in Buenos Aires .

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 15

Web links

• El pintor-fotógrafo de pintores (Spanish) in La República on March 29, 2010, accessed on March 2, 2012