Adriana Janacópulos (1897 - c. 1978) was a 20th-century Brazilian sculptor.
Biography
Adriana Janacopulos was born in
Petrópolis Rio de Janeiro in 1897.
Of Greek descent, she was the niece of the politician Pandiá Calógeras. After the death of her mother, Adriana moved to
Paris with her sister
Vera
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, who would become a lyric singer.
In Paris, Janacopulos studied sculpture with
Léo Laporte-Blairsy
Léo Laporte-Blairsy (1865-1923) was a French sculptor.
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,
Raoul Larche and
Antoine Bourdelle
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and befriended
Amedeo Modigliani
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,
Jacques Lipchitz and artists from the Russian colony.
She married the Russian sculptor,
Alexandre Wolkowyski, with whom she had two daughters.
When
World War I broke out, the Janacopulos sisters moved to
Belgium and then to
Geneva,
Switzerland
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. After the end of the war, she returned to Paris, exhibiting her works in several artistic salons, such as the
Salon d'Automne, and the
Tuileries. She lived with the Brazilian artists of modernism, such as
Anita Malfatti,
Victor Brecheret
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and
Di Cavalcanti, participating in the Latin American Art Exhibition of 1924 (Exposição de Arte Latino-Americana de 1924).
Janacópulos divorced Wolkowyski in 1926. She continued to exhibit in Paris until she returned to Brazil in 1932. With the support of her uncle and the Association of Brazilian Artists, Janacopulos exhibited her first and only solo exhibition in Brazil at the Palace Hotel in Rio. The exhibition was attended by artists and politicians.
She went on to receive commissions from individuals and government agencies. She sculpted the tomb of the poet Felipe d'Oliveira in 1933 and in 1935 made three monuments in honor of the dead of the
Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 for the faculties of law, medicine and engineering of the
University of São Paulo.
In 1938 Janacópulos received a commission from the Ministry of Education and Health, to sculpt a work for the
Gustavo Capanema Palace
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.
She participated in the first
São Paulo Art Biennial
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, in 1951.
After the death of Vera in 1955, Adriana honored her sister with a bust, inaugurated in 1958 in
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, in Rio de Janeiro.
References
Content in this edit is translated from the existing Portuguese Wikipedia article at
:pt:Adriana Janacópulos; see its history for attribution.
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1897 births
1970s deaths
20th-century Brazilian sculptors
20th-century Brazilian women artists
Brazilian people of Greek descent
People from Petrópolis