Manuel de Azambuja Leite Pereira Jardim (6 November 1884,

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– 7 June 1923,

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) was a Portuguese painter and art teacher.

Biography

He was born to an aristocratically inclined bourgeois family from

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and studied at the "Escola de Belas-Artes" (now part of the

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) from 1903 to 1905, then went to Paris with and Eduardo Viana.Brief biography
@ Infopédia. He studied at the

Académie Julian The () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907). The school was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number and qual ...

with

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, where he was influenced by the works of

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and

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. In 1911, he had his first showing at the

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with his painting "Le Déjeuner" (Breakfast). During this time, he also made trips to Germany, Italy and Spain. Upon returning, he held a major exhibit at the Salon d’Automne. He went back to Portugal in 1914 and opened his own art school in Coimbra. While there, he joined with the architect in an effort to establish a "Sociedade Portuguesa de Arte Moderna", but was unsuccessful. In 1920, he was in Paris again, but remained for only a year and returned home after he was diagnosed with

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

. He died two years later. In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for the magazines ''

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'' and '. In 1925, his friend Viana honored him with a major retrospective at the "Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes", along with works by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and

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; two other painters who died young. Further exhibitions were held in 1974 and 2011. Most of his works have been in the possession of the Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro since 1952.

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"Memória de um percurso inacabado"
an appreciation of Jardim by Júlia de Sousa @ the

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