França Júnior

Joaquim José da França Júnior ( born April 19, 1838 in Rio de Janeiro, † November 27, 1890 in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil) was a Brazilian lawyer, playwright, journalist and painter.

Life

França Júnior studied humanities at the Colégio Pedro II in Rio de Janeiro and received his law degree from the Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo in 1862 from. After a practical lawyer, he worked for a period in Bahia as secretary to the president of the local provincial government.

Around 1880 he returned to Rio de Janeiro and studied drawing and painting at the watercolourist Benno Treidler. Encouraged by the experience of the new art, he went as an assistant at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts ( AIBA ), taught at the Johann Georg Grimm. When he left the Academy in 1884, he accompanied the champion and was a member of the group Grimm, who had to study of painting in the great outdoors, the plein-air painting, together. However, the group of German landscape painter was just over two years.

Practiced França Júnior 1887 from the office of guardianship judge for orphans and parents separated children growing up in Rio de Janeiro. In 1888 he traveled to Europe, came back the following year and exhibited his works at the Casa De Wilde from. Artistically had Caron (1862-1892), his friend and partner from the Grimms' period, strong influence. In parallel with its picturesque activities França Júnior emerged as a playwright and journalist as art critic in the newspaper " Correio Mercantil ", "O Paiz ", " Gazeta de Notícias " and " Vida Fluminense ", where he also the stylistic device of Crónicas made ​​use of and life in Rio de Janeiro and the inhabitants, the " cariocas " described with slight spring.

He wrote several successful comedies for the theater, said he, " fazendeiros " also brought here in a realistic portrayal of everyday life and customs of speculators, investors, pioneers on stage. His "As Doutoras " ( The Doctor interior ) of 1889 treated in a satirical way, the former women's movement.

Had his versatile artistic personality 's narrow focus in painting. But his works are regarded for their quality an integral part of the development of the Brazilian landscape painting.

Morro da Viúva, about 1888

Country house, about 1890

Academia Brasileira de Letras

After his death França Júnior namesake for the seat 12 ( Cadeira ), which was founded on the model of the Académie Française in 1897 Academia Brasileira de Letras, the Brazilian Academy of Letters. It thus belongs to the so-called " Immortals" ( Imortais ) of the Academy. First chair holder (1897-1902) was the founding member Urbano Duarte de Oliveira.

Stage Works

  • Meia Hora de cinismo (1861 )
  • A república modelo (1861 )
  • Tipos because Atualidade (1862 )
  • Ingleses na Costa ( 1864)
  • Amor Amor se paga com (1870 )
  • O Defeito de Família (1870 )
  • O Tipo Brasileiro
  • Maldita Parentela
  • Snatch para o Clube Jácome
  • A Lotação Bonde dos
  • Direito por Linhas Tortas
  • Beijo de Judas (1881 )
  • Como se Fazia to Deputado (1881 )
  • Caiu o Ministério (1882 )
  • As Doutoras (1889 )
  • De Petrópolis a Paris (1889 )
  • Portugueses às direitas ( 1890).

His stage works were published in 1980 in Rio de Janeiro under the title Teatro de França Júnior in two volumes.

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