Eduardo Michaelsen

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Eduardo Michaelsen (18 April 1920 – 27 January 2010) born as Eduardo Apolonio Michaelsen y Rivery, was a Cuban-born painter. He was known mainly for naïve painting depicting Cuban folklore.

Biography

Born as Eduardo Apolonio Michaelsen y Rivery on 18 April 1920 in

Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro" in Havana. In 1967, he created a Course on Museography, at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
. Among visual arts he worked mainly in paintings. From 1955 until 1972, he was technical assistant in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana's restoration department.

He arrived in 1980 in the

San Francisco, California
until his death.

He died on 27 January 2010, aged 89 in

San Francisco, California.[citation needed] A short documentary film titled "Eduardo Michaelsen -Color y Tradición" about his life and artistic creations was produced by Cuban film directors Rafael Matos and Rafael Arzuaga.[citation needed
]

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana have some of his works in their collection.[citation needed]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

He presented Oleos. Michaelsen in 1963 at the Lyceum of

San Francisco, California. In 1991 he named after himself another exhibition at the San Francisco Artspace. In 1994, his drawings, Memorias de Cuba y temas de Santería, were exhibited at the Meridian Gallery of San Francisco. In 1997 he showed Michaelsen. Oil on Canvas in the Cuban Collection Fine Art, Coral Gables, Florida. [citation needed
]

Group exhibitions

He participated in 1962 on Trabajadores del Museo Nacional at the

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
.

In 1995 Absolut Mariel - A Historic Overview 1980-1995 was displayed at the South Florida Art Center in Miami Beach, Florida. In May 1995, Art-Exhibit and Silent Auction of Works by Contemporary Artists to Benefit FAITH Services was held at New York City's Jadite Galleries to collect, conserve, exhibit, and interpret the Visual Arts produced by Artists of Cuban heritage. [citation needed]

Sources

  • Viegas, Jose (2004). Memoria: Artes Visuales Cubanas Del Siglo Xx (in Spanish). California International Arts. .
  • Viegas-Zamora, Jose; Cristina Vives Gutierrez, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon, & Dannys Montes de Oca (2001). Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century. California/International Arts Foundation.
    ISBN 978-0-917571-11-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  • "Eduardo Michaelson, 89, Exile's Colorful Canvases Depict Cuban Lore", The Miami Herald, 28 January 2010, p. 4B

References

  1. ^ Ileana Fuentes: Profetas por conocer in: Cuba Encuentro, 22 September 2005 (Spanish)