Alfredo Nicolás Guttero (26 May 1882,

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– 1 December 1932, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine

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painter and art promoter.

Biography

He displayed creative talent at an early age, starting with music but later turning to art. Following his family's wishes, he began a legal career, but left it to become a painter, under the encouragement of

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and

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.Brief biography
@ Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino. In 1904, he received a grant from the Argentinian government to study in

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and lived in

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until 1916, where he studied with

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and participated in the Salon. Following that, he lived in

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and

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, with brief stays in

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and

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and visits to virtually every other part of Western Europe, ending with a major exhibition in

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. After more than two decades away from home, he returned in 1927, where he remained intensely active during the five years remaining until his death. He became the Director of the "Plastic Arts" division of the local Wagner Society and created the "Hall of Modern Painters", where he introduced the works of and , among others. Together with

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and Pedro Domínguez Neira (1894–1970), he created the ''Cursos Libres de Arte Plástico''. In 1931, he exhibited at the First Baltimore Pan-American Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings at the

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. Much of his time and energy was spent promoting modern art, in opposition to the reactionary forces prevalent at that period. His death came suddenly. A large part of his work involves figures in unusual, kinetic poses, but he also painted landscapes with industrial buildings. His interest in music led him to provide decorations for the

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. He also devised a painting technique he called "yeso cocido" (cooked plaster), consisting of plaster and pigments bound with glue and usually applied to wood.

Gallery

File:Guttero-Cavarry.jpg, ''Retrato de Lucien de Cavarry'' (''Portrait of Lucien de Cavarry''), 1911,

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, Buenos Aires File:Alfredo Guttero - Mujeres indolentes - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Mujeres indolentes'' (''Indolent Women''), 1927, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires File:Alfredo Guttero - Anunciación - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Anunciación'' (''Annunciation''), 1928, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires File:Guttero-Composition.jpg, ''Composición'' (''Composition''), 1928, Private collection, Buenos Aires File:Guttero-Elevators.jpg, ''Elevadores de grano'' (''Grain Elevators''), 1928, Private collection File:Guttero-Boat.jpg, ''Barca en la ribera'' (''Boat on the Riverbank''), 1929, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto, Buenos Aires File:Guttero-Market.jpg, ''Feria'' (''Market''), 1929, Private collection File:Guttero-Dove.jpg, ''Anunciación con paloma'' (''Annunciation with dove''), 1931,

, Buenos Aires

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An appreciation of Guttero
@ ArtExperts.

@ the Argentine Ministry of Education

at

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