Raquel Forner

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Raquel Forner (born April 22, 1902 in Buenos Aires ; † June 10, 1988 ibid) was an Argentine painter who is attributed to Expressionism .

Life

Forner came from a family with Spanish roots and spent her childhood partly in Argentina and partly in Spain. After completing school in Buenos Aires, she moved to the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes and was able to successfully complete this course in 1923. The year before, she had been appointed drawing teacher there. Since that time she was friends with Victoria Ocampo and through her came to Grupo Florida .

In 1924 Forner was invited to participate in the XIV. Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes . Her picture “Mis vecinas” won 3rd prize. This made Forner famous, but it was another four years before she was able to host her first solo exhibition.

In the spring of 1929 Forner settled in Paris to study at the Académie Scandinave ; u. a. was there Othon Friesz their teacher. In addition to her studies at the art academy, she also took private lessons until 1931 and worked in Friesz's private studio.

After a stay in Madrid , Forner returned to Argentina and shortly afterwards founded the Libres de Artes Plástico there together with the painters Alfredo Guttero and Pedro Domínguez Neiro and the sculptor Alfredo Bigatti . Forner married the latter in 1936. At the latest with the beginning of the civil war in Spain , Forner's artistic statements became more and more political and she also turned to surrealism . After the Second World War , Forner had her international breakthrough and was able to exhibit regularly in North and South America and again and again in Europe.

Raquel Forner died in 1988 shortly after the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires opened a major retrospective exhibition in her honor.

Honors

literature

Essays
  • Kristin Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark: Artists of Latin American cultures. A biographical dictionary . Greenwood Press, Westport, Con. 2002, pp. 78-80, ISBN 978-0-313-31544-2 .
  • Jane Turner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean art (= Grove encyclopedias of the arts of the Americas). Macmillan Books, London 2000, p. 278, ISBN 0-333-76466-8 .
Monographs
  • David W. Foster et al. a .: Culture and customs of Argentina . Greenwood Press, Westport, Con. 1998, ISBN 978-0-313-30319-7 .
  • Cecilia Puerto: Latin American women artists. Kahlo and look who else (= Art reference collection; 21). Greenwood Press, Westport, Con. 1996, ISBN 0-313-28934-4 .

Individual representations

  1. ↑ today Universidad Nacional de las Artes
  2. ↑ in German "My neighbors"
personal data
SURNAME Forner, Raquel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1988
Place of death Buenos Aires