Antônio Parreiras
Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreira ( born January 20, 1860 in Niterói, † October 17, 1937 in Niterói ) was a Brazilian painter, draftsman and illustrator.
The 22 -year-old Parreira came in 1882 in the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes ( Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) from Rio de Janeiro, which he left in 1884 again to attend the free painting course of the German professor Johann Georg Grimm (later called O grupo Grimm ) participate. After the departure of his master in the interior of Brazil (1885 ), he continued his studies in self-taught form.
In 1888 he traveled to Europe to perfect his technique at the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia ( Academy of Fine Arts in Venice).
Returned to Brazil (1890), he participated in the Exposição General de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro. In the same year he became professor of landscape painting at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. He followed the teaching methods wrath, and took his students to paint in the great outdoors. The works were exhibited in 1892. The painting Sertanejas gives a summary impression of the studies in the open air in the woods of Teresópolis.
From 1899, he received Malaufträge for historical episodes and presented several works for government palaces ago as 1925, the Alegoria a Apollo e às Deusas the Horas on the ceiling of the lobby in the Palácio da Liberdade (Palace of freedom ) in Belo Horizonte. Among his historical works are Conquista do Amazonas ( Conquest of the Amazon ) and Lembrança da visita de Oscar I, rei da Suécia e Noruega ( memory of the visit of Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway) remarkable.
In addition to this thematic area dedicated to the female nude, which he painted with great sensuality as in Flor brasileira, Fantasia and Frinéia.
Among the artists of the Belle Époque in 1925 he was regarded as the most popular painters of Brazil. In 1926 he published his autobiography História de um Pintor contada por ele mesmo with which he was admitted to the Academia de Letras Fluminense of Rio de Janeiro. In 1933 he participated in the retrospective exhibition Jubileu Artístico in São Paulo and in Niterói.
After he died in 1937 in Niterói, one created in 1941 from his studio, the museum dedicated to him and his work " Museu Antônio Parreiras ".