Adriano Sousa Lopes (20 February 1879, in

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– 21 April 1944, in

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) was a Portuguese Modernist painter and engraver who worked in a wide range of genres.

Biography

In 1898, after working for several years as a pharmacy assistant,Brief biography
@ the Museo de Chiado. he entered the "Academia Real de Belas-Artes" (now part of the University of Lisbon) where he studied painting with Veloso Salgado and design with Luciano Freire.Brief biography
@ the Centro del Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1903, he received a stipend from the "Legado do Visconde de Valmor", a charitable fund established in 1898 for training artists and acquiring art, among other objectives. He used the money to go to Paris, where he attended the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with

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and Édouard Vuillard, then the

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; studying with Fernand Cormon. In 1900, he was awarded the "Prémio Anunciação", a prestigious award named in honor of the painter

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. From 1904 to 1912, he exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne and made a brief visit to Italy in 1907. In 1915, he helped organize the Fine Arts display for the Portuguese pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. He held his first solo exhibition in 1917 at the "Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes" in Lisbon. That same year, he went to the

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as an official artist with the rank of captain, to record the exploits of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps. The following year, he settled in Versailles to turn his sketches into paintings and engravings, which were exhibited in Paris in 1923 under the title "Portugal in the Great War". Over the next four years, he travelled throughout Europe and North Africa. Upon returning to Portugal, he succeeded

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as Director of the

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. During the 1930s, he turned to a more traditional style of painting after he received several official commissions, including murals for the "Museu Militar de Lisboa" and, later, the Main Hall of the National Assembly at São Bento Palace. In 1942, however, he fell ill with heart disease and had to quit the project. He died two years later and the murals were finished by and others, according to precise instructions he had left.

Selected works

File:Adriano de Sousa Lopes A Blusa Azul c 1920 óleo s tela 82 x 60 cm.jpg, The Blue Blouse (C.1920) File:Adriano de Sousa Lopes Descarga do barco.jpg, Unloading the Boats (c.1930) File:Adriano Sousa Lopes, Sem título, Portugal na Grande Guerra, água forte, 40,5 x 63,5 cm.jpg, Scene from "Portugal in the Great War" (1920s) File:Sousa Lopes Ondinas 1908.jpg, Nymphs (1908)

References

External links

Arcadja Auctions: More works by Sousa Lopes.

"Adriano Sousa Lopes, o pintor-soldado" (painter-soldier)
by "Lusa" from '' Diário de Notícias''.
"Adriano Sousa Lopes: Um pintor nas trincheiras" (painter in the trenches)
@ A Primeira República. * Exposiçã
Sousa Lopes 1879-1944. Efeitos de Luz
Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado {{DEFAULTSORT:Sousa Gomes, Adriano 1879 births 1944 deaths Portuguese painters Portuguese male painters War artists People from Leiria Académie Julian alumni

Biography

Selected works

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