Atilio Malinverno (
Buenos Aires
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, April 20, 1890 – June 21, 1936) was an
Argentine painter. He was a
post-Impressionist, a part of a movement started in the first year of the 20th century.
Known as "the philosopher of trees", he devoted himself exclusively to
landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...
in his free time from working in his advertising agency. The main topics of his works were the hills of
Córdoba, the
Pampas
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plains, the mountains of
Tandil
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, the coast of
Quilmes
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, the ravines of
San Isidro beside the
Río de la Plata
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, and
Piriapolis in
Uruguay
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.
He moved for a period to the Córdoba hills, painting in the open air, and on returning to Buenos Aires staged exhibitions at which he successfully sold all his works.
He studied art at the ''Asociación de Estímulo de Bellas Artes'' (Fine Arts Association), and made several trips to study art in the Argentine interior, Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay.
Biography
Malinverno was born in Buenos Aires on 20 April 1890. He studied at the Fine Arts Association with teachers
Reinaldo Giudici
Reinaldo Giudici (1853, Lenno – 30 August 1921, Buenos Aires) was an Italian-born Argentine painter, best known for his early genre works in the Costumbrismo style.
Biography
He emigrated to Uruguay with his father when he was eight ye ...
,
Ernesto de la Cárcova
Ernesto de la Cárcova y Arrotea (March 3, 1866 – December 28, 1927) was an Argentine painter of the Realist school.
Life and work
Ernesto de la Cárcova was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1866. Taking an early interest in the canvas, h ...
and
Eduardo Sívori
Eduardo Sívori (October 13, 1847 – June 5, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter.
Life and work
Born to Genoese immigrants in Buenos Aires, Sívori had harbored artistic leanings during childho ...
. In 1910 at the age of 20, he submitted a work at the Centennial International Exhibition. Exhibitions devoted to his own work were held at the Salón Castellani in
Rosario in 1919 and 1921, and at the National Commission of Fine Arts in 1921. The next year he won the Silver Medal in the National Exhibition of Decorative Art, and made his first journey to the mountains of Córdoba, including their scenery in his work. He held another individual exhibition at the Cultural Association of
Bahia Blanca
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in the hall of the Municipal Palace in December. In 1923 he took part in the sixth ''Salón de Otoño'' exhibition in Rosario. Awards included Gold Medal at the Centenary Exhibition in Tandil (1923), Bronze Medal at the Community Exhibition (1924), and the ''Estímulo del Salón Nacional'' prize (1927). Later individual exhibitions were mounted at the Friends of Art Association in Buenos Aires in 1928, and at the Witcomb Hall in Buenos Aires in 1930. He died in Buenos Aires on 21 June 1936. A large posthumous exhibition was mounted the following year at the Müller Gallery, organized by a committee of homage chaired by his favorite disciple, actor and painter
Enrique Muiño
Enrique Muiño (July 5, 1881 in A Laracha, Spain – May 24, 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a classic Spanish/Argentine actor who appeared in film between 1913 and his death in 1956.
Born in Spain, Muiño moved to Buenos Aires and bega ...
.
More recently his work has featured repeatedly in exhibitions at the Alvear de Zurbarán Collection in Buenos Aires: individual exhibitions in 1986, 1991, 1994 and 1998, and as part of collective exhibitions in 1982 and 1997. Also in 1986 his work was included in the "Italian Roots in Argentine Art" exhibition at the ''Estudio de Buenos Aires''.
Present displays
Malinverno's work is on display at:
* Blue Room of the
Casa Rosada
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presidential palace, Buenos Aires
* Permanent collection, Museo de Arte del
TigreLa Colección Permanente - Atilio Malinverno
, Museo de Arte Tigre
* Eduardo Sívori Museum, Buenos Aires
* Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
* Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernandez Blanco, Buenos Aires
References
Further reading
* "Malinverno", Talleres Gráficos "La Suiza", 1937
* Rafael F. Squirru, Ignacio Gutiérrez Zaldívar. "40 Maestros Del Arte de Los Argentinos", p. 186. Zurbarán Ediciones, 1990
* Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales. "La pintura argentina: identidad nacional e hispanismo (1900-1930)", p. 63-65. Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2003
External links
Atilio Malinverno - Personal site
Atilio Malinverno - Website Zurbarán
The painters who showed the field - The Nation
New brushes for Argentine landscape - The Nation
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1890 births
1936 deaths
20th-century Argentine painters
Argentine male painters
20th-century Argentine male artists