
Adriano Sousa Lopes (20 February 1879, in
Leiria
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– 21 April 1944, in
Lisbon
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) was a Portuguese
Modernist painter and engraver who worked in a wide range of genres.
Biography
In 1898, after working for several years as a pharmacy assistant,
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@ the Museo de Chiado. he entered the "Academia Real de Belas-Artes" (now part of the
University of Lisbon) where he studied painting with
Veloso Salgado and design with
Luciano Freire.
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@ the Centro del Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 1903, he received a stipend from the "Legado do Visconde de Valmor", a charitable fund established in 1898 for training artists and acquiring art, among other objectives. He used the money to go to Paris, where he attended the
École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with
Pierre Bonnard
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and
Édouard Vuillard, then the
Académie Julian
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; studying with
Fernand Cormon.
In 1900, he was awarded the "Prémio Anunciação", a prestigious award named in honor of the painter
Tomás da Anunciação
Tomás José da Anunciação, (26 October 1821 – 3 April 1879) was a Portuguese painter.
Life
He was born at Ajuda near Lisbon and learned his art in the academy of that city. Afterwards he travelled through Spain and France. Principally an a ...
. From 1904 to 1912, he exhibited regularly at the
Salon d'Automne and made a brief visit to Italy in 1907. In 1915, he helped organize the Fine Arts display for the Portuguese pavilion at the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition.
He held his first solo exhibition in 1917 at the "Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes" in Lisbon. That same year, he went to the
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as an official artist with the rank of captain, to record the exploits of the
Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
The following year, he settled in
Versailles to turn his sketches into paintings and engravings, which were exhibited in Paris in 1923 under the title "Portugal in the Great War". Over the next four years, he travelled throughout Europe and North Africa. Upon returning to Portugal, he succeeded
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (Almada, 21 November 1857 – Lisbon, 6 November 1929), who is usually referred to as Columbano, was a Portuguese Realist painter. Usually considered the greatest Portuguese painter of the 19th century, he has been c ...
as Director of the
Chiado Museum
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.
During the 1930s, he turned to a more traditional style of painting after he received several official commissions, including murals for the "Museu Militar de Lisboa" and, later, the Main Hall of the National Assembly at
São Bento Palace.
In 1942, however, he fell ill with heart disease and had to quit the project. He died two years later and the murals were finished by and others, according to precise instructions he had left.
Selected works
File:Adriano de Sousa Lopes A Blusa Azul c 1920 óleo s tela 82 x 60 cm.jpg, The Blue Blouse (C.1920)
File:Adriano de Sousa Lopes Descarga do barco.jpg, Unloading the Boats (c.1930)
File:Adriano Sousa Lopes, Sem título, Portugal na Grande Guerra, água forte, 40,5 x 63,5 cm.jpg, Scene from "Portugal in the Great War" (1920s)
File:Sousa Lopes Ondinas 1908.jpg, Nymphs (1908)
References
Further reading
* Maria Margarida Garrido Marques Matias, ''Sousa Lopes'',
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1980
External links
Arcadja Auctions: More works by Sousa Lopes."Adriano Sousa Lopes, o pintor-soldado" (painter-soldier)by "Lusa" from ''
Diário de Notícias''.
"Adriano Sousa Lopes: Um pintor nas trincheiras" (painter in the trenches)@ A Primeira República.
* Exposiçã
Sousa Lopes 1879-1944. Efeitos de Luz Museu de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado
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1879 births
1944 deaths
Portuguese painters
Portuguese male painters
War artists
People from Leiria
Académie Julian alumni