While Argentina or Uruguay are still characterized by Italian immigrants, in Brazil they are rather a minority among many. And yet the Sugarloaf Mountain boot has also produced important contemporaries, such as the painter Eliseu Visconti.
Visconti was born as an Italian in 1866 in a village in the province of Salerno south of Naples. At the age of eighteen we find him already in Rio de Janeiro, so he emigrated with his family to the New World as a child or teenager - like so many Italians at that time, especially from the "Mezzogiorno", the south of the country. At the age of eighteen, Visconti entered the "Academia Imperial des Belas Artes" in 1884 - so named because Brazil was still an empire until 1889. Visconti studied under professors Henrique Bernardelli and Rodolfo Amodeo - two descendants of Italians who were already born in the New World (hence the Spanish first names). As early as 1888 Visconti won the gold medal of the academy, but failed together with other comrades-in-arms in an attempt to reform the painting and training methods. A "free studio" only existed for a short time.
In 1892 Visconti returned to Europe. In Paris he attended not only the "École des Beaux Arts" but also the National School of Decorative Painting, and turned to Art Nouveau. His works were accepted at the "Salon National des Beaux Arts" as well as at the "Societé des Artistes Francais". At the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, he represented his native Brazil with two paintings and won the silver medal with "Gioventù" (Youth), the portrait of a young girl. As an established and respected artist, Eliseu Visconti, once proscribed as a rebel, returned to Brazil. With him the "Art Nouveau" became socially acceptable in Brazil. After various exhibitions in Rio and Sao Paulo, a victory in the stamp competition, the production of stage designs for the municipal theatre of Rio de Janeiro and the gold medal at the 1904 World Exhibition in Saint Louis (USA) for "The Reward of Saint Sebastian", he was called to his old academy to inherit Henrique Bernardelli as professor of painting. He remained in this position until 1913.
Upon his return to Paris, Visconti began working on large-scale panel murals for the foyer of the Rio City Theater. The First World War, however, prevented his return home, so he remained in France until 1920. His panels were transported by ship to Rio in 1915 - luckily they did not fall victim to the submarine warfare! After the end of the war, Visconti returned home for good and devoted himself increasingly to murals, for example in the Palace of Justice in Rio on the occasion of the centenary of Brazil's independence from Portugal in 1922.
The "pioneer of Art Nouveau in Brazil" died in Rio on 15 October 1944. Today his paintings decorate all the important museums in Brazil.
×
Passionate Customer Service
.jpg "Woman")
.jpg)
.jpg "Pedro II of Brazil, aged 9 by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Nude by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Nude Standing Male by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Male Nude by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Allegory of the Budget Law by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Youth by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Lyric Arts - Musical Inspiration - Side Panel of the Foyer of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Allegory of Drama - Ceiling Triangle Over the Audience of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Female Nude, Supine by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Torso of a Sitting Man by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Science and Truth - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Model Posing by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ballet Dancers and Beethoven - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of the Sculptor Nicolina Vaz de Assis by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Self-portrait by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Study for a Poster Advertising Antarctica Brewery - Project for the Grand Drape of the Casino Antarctica by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "My Wife, Louise by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Old Man Sitting by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Laying Angel - Study for the First Proscenium of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Couple - Study of a Detail for the Triangle Ceiling Over the Seating Area of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Duties of the City - Study for the Triptych of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro Pedro Ernesto Palace by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Allegory of the Lyrical - Study for the Ceiling Triangle of the Municipal Theater by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Female Nudes by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of Francisco Pereira Passos by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Music Band - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Letter by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Woman in a Park, Petropolis by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Model by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Man with a Red Cap by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ballet Dancer and D. Pedro de Alcantara - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Art - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ballet Dancers and Carlos Gomes - Cartoon for the Transfer of the Grand Drape of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of the Sculptor Joao Zacco Parana by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Progress - Panel of the National Library of Brazil by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Poetry and Love Separate Virtue from Vice - Study for the First Frieze of the Proscenium of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Self-Portrait Outdoors by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Emblem of the National Library of Brazil by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Instruction Human Solidarity - Study for the panel of the National Library of Brazil by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Instruction Human Solidarity - Panel of the National Library of Brazil by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Allegory of Drama - Side Panel of the Foyer of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Sun Bath by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Providence Guides Cabral by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Church of Santa Teresa by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Tuileries by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Two Heads by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of the Art Critic Luis Gonzaga Duque Estrada by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "The Dance of the Hours - Study for the Ceiling of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Portrait of Jose Antonio Duarte by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Baixada de Villa-Rica by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Victory of Samothrace by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Self-portrait in Three Positions by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Papaya Tree by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Biblical Scene - Lot and His Daughters by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Ex-libris of the National Library of Brazil by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
.jpg "Allegory of the Lyrical - Ceiling Triangle Over the Audience of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro by Eliseu Visconti")
.jpg)
+43 4257 29415
support@meisterdrucke.com
Mo-Do: 7:00 - 16:00 | Fr: 7:00 - 13:00
