Lucílio de Albuquerque (9 May 1877 – 19 April 1939) was a Brazilian painter, designer and art professor.

Biography

His father was a

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. @ Pitoresco. After a brief period of studying law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, he enrolled at the

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(ENBA), where he studied under

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and

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.Brief biography
@ the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. In 1906, his painting "Anchieta escrevendo o poema à Virgem" ( Anchieta Writing the Poem to the Virgin) won him ENBA's "Travel Award". Soon after, he and his new bride Georgina (a classmate) left for France, where they remained for five years. While there, he attended the

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, where he studied with Marcel Baschet, Henri Royer and

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. He also worked in the studios of

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and had a small exhibition at the

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. Upon their return to Brazil in 1911, they held joint exhibitions at ENBA, where Lucílio became a Professor of Figure Drawing and was appointed to a chair in 1916. Over the next decade, he received many awards at the "". He became the Director of ENBA in 1937, but resigned a year later due to poor health. Best known for his portraits and landscapes, he also designed the

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windows for the Brazilian Pavilion at the

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and did decorative paintings for the Palácio Pedro Ernesto. After his death, Georgina turned their home in

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into the "Museu Lucílio de Albuquerque".

Gallery

File:Anchieta-Albuquerque.jpg, Anchieta writing the Poem to the Virgin (1906) File:Lucílio de Albuquerque - Jangada, 1920.jpg, The Raft (1920)

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External links

"Lucílio de Albuquerque na arte brasileira", by Piedade Epstein Grinberg
@ DezeNoveVinte 1877 births 1939 deaths Brazilian landscape painters Brazilian art educators 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists Académie Julian alumni Brazilian expatriates in France {{Brazil-painter-stub

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