Ângelo César Cardoso de Sousa (2 February 193829 March 2011) was a Portuguese painter, sculptor,

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and professor, better known for continuously experimenting new techniques in his works. He was seen as a scholar of light and colour who explored

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in new radical ways. He was born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) in 1938 and in 1955 he moved to

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where he enrolled in the School of Fine Artes. It was there that he received his degree in painting with the highest mark, 20. His academic excellence led him, along with Armando Alves,

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and

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, to become part of a group known as "Os Quatro Vintes" (Portuguese for "The Four Twenties"). Ângelo de Sousa lived and worked in Porto, where he lectured in the School of Fine Arts (now the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto) from 1962 until 2000, when he retired as a

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. Prior to teaching, de Sousa had his first solo exhibition in 1959 and since then his works have been shown worldwide. In 1975 he received the International Prize of the 13th

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and in 2007 the

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presented him with the

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. Some of his drawings illustrate books by

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, Maria Alzira Seixo,

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, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, amongst others. He died in his home, at the age of 73, after battling with cancer for several months.

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Ângelo de Sousa, Antigo Estudante da Escola Superior de Belas-Artes do Porto
(in Portuguese) {{DEFAULTSORT:De Sousa, Angelo 1935 births 2011 deaths Portuguese painters Portuguese male painters Portuguese sculptors Male sculptors University of Porto alumni Deaths from cancer in Portugal