Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza - Cardoso ( born November 14, 1887 in Manhufe, Mancelos, Amarante, Porto District, † October 25, 1918 in Espinho, Aveiro District ) was a pioneer of postmodern Portuguese painting.

Life

Amadeo de Souza - Cardoso graduated in 1905 to study architecture at the Academia de Belas Artes, Lisbon. A year later he went to France devoted entirely to painting in Paris. He attended various schools and within a short time he became acquainted with the most famous artists of the city, including Amedeo Modigliani, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Archipenko, Sonia and Robert Delaunay. Through his friendship with the painter and sculptor Otto Freundlich Souza - Cardoso will also draw attention to the expressionism and the art of the bridge and the Blue Rider gave it impetus. This was followed by exhibitions in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Moscow, London and 1913 to participate in the Armory Show in New York City.

But its success as a promising talent ended when Souza - Cardoso was forced at the beginning of World War I to go back to Portugal. In Barcelona, he met the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and married his niece Lúcia Peretto. In 1918 he died of the Spanish flu.