Domingo García Y Vásquez
Domingo García y Vásquez (c. 1859 – 1912) was a Spanish-born Brazilian landscape painter. Biography His father owned a company in Rio de Janeiro and brought Domingo there to be with him sometime between 1871 and 1876. He was enrolled at the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (AIBA) from 1879 to 1884, where he became a student of the German landscape painter Georg Grimm.Brief biography
@ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. When Grimm staged a protest against the Academy's teaching methods, García joined him and several other students (including Giovanni Battista Castagneto, Antônio Parreiras and Hipólito Boaventura Caron) in leaving the Academy to establish their own school in Niterói, where they painted plein-air and came to be known as the "Grupo Grimm". This proved to be a very successful time in his life. ...
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Vigo
Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and Municipalities in Spain, municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the Ria de Vigo, the southernmost of the Rías Baixas. The municipality, with an area of and a population of 299,321 on June 15, 2022 including rural parishes, is the most populous municipality in Galicia. The area of the municipality includes the Cíes Islands, part of the Atlantic Islands of Galicia National Park. Vigo is one of the region's primary economic agents, owing to the French Stellantis Vigo Plant and to its Port of Vigo, port. Close to the Portugal–Spain border, Vigo is part of the Galicia–North Portugal Euroregion. The European Fisheries Control Agency is headquartered in Vigo. History In the Early Middle Ages, the small village of Vigo was part of t ...
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