Camilo Mori

Camilo Mori Serrano ( * September 24, 1896 in Valparaíso, † 7 December 1973 in Santiago de Chile) was a Chilean painter.

From 1914 he studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Santiago in Juan Francisco González, Richardo Richon Brunet, Alberto Valenzuela Llanos and Agustín Undurraga. As a student of Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor he belonged to the group of painters of the Generacion del Trece.

From 1928 to 1929 Mori served as Director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, from 1933 he was professor at the Escuela de Arquitectura of the Universidad de Chile. From 1937 to 1939 he lived in the U.S. and there designed the Chilean Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. From 1951 to 1954 he was president of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Chile.

Mori has received numerous awards for his works, including the Premio Nacional de 1950 Arte. Both during his lifetime and after his death found individual exhibitions of his works, most recently in 1988, among other things, a retrospective at the Instituto Cultural de las Condes in Santiago and 2001 Homenaje a Camilo Mori Serrano in Viña del Mar. Moris paintings are among other things in the possession of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes de Valparaiso and the Pinakothek der Universidad de Valparaíso.

Works

• Retrato de Señora
• Escena
• Retrato
• Reloj Turri
• Noche de Luna
• Subida Cerro de
• Pablo Garrido y su Guitarra
• Padre e Hijo
• Paisaje con desértico Sol
• Paseo en el campo
• Visión urbana
• Escena en un restaurant