Ernesto de la Cárcova

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is de la Cárcova and the second or maternal family name is Arrotea.
Ernesto de la Cárcova
Realist
AwardsGold medal, Universal Exposition of 1904

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, he studied at the local Society for the Stimulus of Fine Arts under painter Francisco Romero. He attended the prestigious Accademia Albertina in Turin, where he was trained by painter Giacomo Grosso.[1]

Without Bread or Work, oil on canvas, 1893.

At the 31st Turin Fine Arts Exposition in 1890, he presented The Head of An Old Man, a

Panic of 1890, the work is today displayed in the National Museum of Fine Art.[1]

Gaining increasing renown, he was invited to direct the Argentine Artists' Fellowship Program in Paris in 1902 and received a gold medal for his work at the

Berlin State Museums collections, including those of a number of ancient Egyptian, Chaldean, and Greek busts and bronzes. Returning to Buenos Aires, he displayed a number of these works at the Buenos Aires Centennial Exposition in 1910 and was invited into the National Fine Arts Academy by its founder, fellow Realist painter Eduardo Sívori.[2]

Seal created for the Argentine Centennial (1910)

He accepted a professorship at the

National University Art Institute, Argentina's foremost institution of its type.[4]

Professor de la Cárcova bequeathed his collection of German sculptures for the creation of the Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture, which was named in his honor following his death in 1927.[5] He was buried in La Recoleta Cemetery.

References

  1. ^ a b "N° 142 – Sin pan y sin trabajo". Agenda de Reflexión. December 28, 2003. Archived from the original on December 23, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
  2. ^ Payró, Julio E. (1978). 23 pintores de la Argentina. Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires. p. 58.
  3. ^ "Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación Ernesto de la Cárcova".
  4. ^ "Historia". Universidad Nacional de las Artes.
  5. ^ "Dirección de Posgrado en Artes Visuales "Ernesto de la Cárcova"". Buenos Aires Ciudad.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ernesto de la Cárcova.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernesto_de_la_Cárcova&oldid=1201618043"