Eduardo Kingman
Eduardo Kingman Riofrio ( born February 3, 1913 in Zaruma, El Oro, † 27 November 1997 in Quito ) was an Ecuadorian painter.
Life
Kingman was the son of an American doctor who came over the South American Development Company to Ecuador where he initially worked in the gold mines of Porto Velo and later moved to the capital, Quito, and a widowed first marriage Ecuadorian. His brother Nicolás Kingman was a well known writer.
Kingman began in the late 1920s to study at the art school Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quito. His most important teacher was Víctor Mideros, Camilo Egas also taught his time there. After the family moved to Guayaquil in 1931, he was next to his studies and changing activities forming part of the intellectual scene of the port city. In 1933, he presented for the first time in Guayaquil his works. In the late 1930s he moved back to Quito, where he worked for the art school and took part in various exhibitions and salons.
1940 bought the Museum of Modern Art in New York one of his oil paintings. In subsequent years, Kingman traveled to study tours and exhibitions in the USA, Venezuela and Peru. He was a member in 1944 of the founding members of the Ecuadorian Institute of Culture Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana whose founder Benjamín Carrión a fan of Mexican mural was that represented the life of the indigenous population non clears. He promoted Kingman in his work in this area.
1950 Kingman was appointed director of the Ecuadorian Museum of Colonial Art in Quito, a post which he held for more than 20 years. At the same time he was a professor at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quito. In the late 1970s he moved to his Posada Soledad in the small town on the outskirts of Quito San Rafaél back. He died in 1997 after a severe pneumonia in Quito.
His work has been exhibited, among others in Bogota, Caracas, Mexico City, San Francisco, Paris, in the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. He won numerous prizes at salons and has received various honors.
Kingman was in 1948 married to Bertha Jijón Ante and had two children.
Work
An overarching theme of the paintings, lithographs and wood work Kingman's is marked by hardship of life of the indigenous people of Ecuador. Especially the hands and faces of the people represented by Kingman indicate expressive hardship and poverty of living conditions. With this rejection of bourgeois subjects in painting, he was a pioneer of a generation, which also included artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamín.
In addition to his art and the social commitment of Kingman's and his literary activity was marked by his commitment to the indigenous population.