Mário Eloy (15 March 1900 in Algés – 5 September 1951 in Lisbon) was a

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expressionist

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Eloy was born in Lisbon. His style shows the influence of painters like

van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is kn ...

and, mostly, from the German

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

painting, that he admired during his staying in

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, from 1927 to 1932, especially

Carl Hofer Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or ''Carl Hofer'' (11 October 1878, Karlsruhe – 3 April 1955, Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. One of the most prominent painters of expressioni ...

. After returning to

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, he became the best representative from expressionism in the Portuguese painting. Some of his latter works, like "Enterro" (c. 1940), in his references, seems to anticipate the

surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

painting in Portugal. In year 1944, he had to leave painting due to a serious

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and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution at

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, where he died.

External links

Profile of Mário Eloy at José de Azeredo Perdigão Modern Art Center Official Site (In Portuguese)
Expressionist painters 1900 births 1951 deaths People from Lisbon 20th-century Portuguese painters 20th-century male artists Portuguese male painters {{Portugal-painter-stub