Pedro Weingärtner (26 July 1853 – 26 December 1929) was an important
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of
Brazil, and the first artist born in
Rio Grande do Sul
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to win international praise for his work.
Biography
Born in
Porto Alegre, to a family of German immigrants, he began his artistic career as an amateur, helped by his brother Inácio, who was a
lithographer, and possibly also by the painter
Delfim da Câmara. In 1878 he moved to
Germany in order to study in the
Grossherzoglich Badische Kunstschule, in
Karlsruhe. There he became a pupil of
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,
Theodor Poeckh
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Biography
From 1860 to 1861, he was a student of Hans Fredrik Gude at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.Ernst Hildebrand
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He was the son of a landowner who later became the station mast ...
. In 1880 Keller moved to
Berlin, being followed by Weingärtner, who then enrolled in the local Academy.
In 1882 he left Germany for
France, studying in the
Académie Julian
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under
Tony Robert-Fleury and
William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Wrecked by financial issues, he thought of abandoning his studies, but such situation was reverted by supportive friends, including Baron of Itajubá, who got for him a special scholarship from Emperor
Pedro II upon Bouguereau's advice. Then he could further his education in
Rome.
Thereafter for many years he divided his time between
Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre and Rome, traveling very often and being celebrated as one of the most important Brazilian painters of his generation. In Rio Grande do Sul he was a star. In 1920 he was back in Porto Alegre, where the remained until death. His fame declined from 1925 on, facing competition from new painters and changing tastes in local art.
He devoted all his efforts to a half-
Realist half-
Romantic
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approach to Academicism even while such styles were already being severely challenged by
Modern
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tendencies. Major themes in his work were mythological scenes, landscapes and genre paintings focusing mainly immigrants and the
gaucho, the folk type of Rio Grande do Sul people.
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Selected paintings
File:Chegou tarde-weing-MNBA.jpg, ''Too late!'' Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
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File:Weingartner-daph.jpg, '' Daphnis and Chloe''. Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art
File:Ceifa alemã2 - Pedro Weingärtner-1903.jpg, ''German harvest'', 1903. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
File:Pedro Weingärtner - Paisagem, 1900.jpg, ''Landscape'', 1900. Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
File:Aderrubada-weing-1913-mnba.jpg, ''Felled Trees'', 1913. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
File:01292---Pedro-Weingärtner--.jpg, '' Tempora mutantur'', 1898. Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art
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See also
*
Brazilian painting
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*
Academicism
*
Realism
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*
Romanticism
References
*Damasceno, Athos. ''Artes Plásticas no Rio Grande do Sul''. Porto Alegre: Editora Globo, 1971. pp. 196–216.
External links
pinacoteca.org.brmasp.art.br
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1853 births
1929 deaths
Brazilian romantic painters
Brazilian people of German descent
Realist painters
19th-century Brazilian painters
19th-century Brazilian male artists
20th-century Brazilian painters
20th-century Brazilian male artists
Académie Julian alumni