Maria Keil

Maria Pires da Silva Keil do Amaral ( born August 9, 1914 in Silves, † June 10, 2012 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese painter.

Career

Her artistic training received wedge at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes ( Fine Arts School ) in Lisbon, where she was a pupil of the painter Veloso Salgado. First wedge worked mainly for advertising; they designed numerous posters, postcards and brochures for Portuguese companies.

In 1933 she married the Portuguese architect Francisco Keil do Amaral. She accompanied him then at his orders, whereby it was also partly involved. So Francisco Keil do Amaral designed the Portuguese Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, Maria Keil was responsible for the interior. In the Portuguese World Fair in 1940, it was represented with a mural, 1941, she won the Prémio Revelação Amadeu de Sousa Cardoso for a self-portrait.

Their greatest notoriety gained Maria wedge in the 1950s and 1960s. The city of Lisbon, she commissioned to design the stations of the Metro opened in 1959, Lisbon. Wedge chose this small-format azulejos tiles, laying the foundations for a renaissance of this at the time as no longer adequately respected tradition in Portugal. For each station, they chose a special color concept with different shapes and patterns. To date, these nineteen stations of the 1950s and 1960s dominate the Metro the Portuguese capital. Meanwhile, other artists have taken up the wedge idea and developed, so that even more subway stations in Lisbon match this style. Francisco also Keil do Amaral was involved in the construction of the metro; he was responsible for the technical planning of most railway stations of the original network.

Gallery

Some works Maria wedge:

Wall design in the Lisbon Metro station São Sebastião

Wall design in the Lisbon Metro station Praça de Espanha

Azulejos Wall Metro Station Alvalade

Azulejos wall design in the Anjos Metro Station