Manuel Jardim

Manuel de Azambuja Leite Pereira Jardim (6 November 1884, Montemor-o-Velho – 7 June 1923, Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and art teacher.

Biography

He was born to an aristocratically inclined bourgeois family from Coimbra and studied at the "Escola de Belas-Artes" (now part of the University of Lisbon) from 1903 to 1905, then went to Paris with Manuel Bentes [pt] and Eduardo Viana.^[1]

He studied at the

He went back to Portugal in 1914 and opened his own art school in Coimbra. While there, he joined with the architect José Pacheko [pt] in an effort to establish a "Sociedade Portuguesa de Arte Moderna", but was unsuccessful.^[1] In 1920, he was in Paris again, but remained for only a year and returned home after he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He died two years later.

In addition to his painting, he provided illustrations for the magazines

since 1952.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Brief biography @ Infopédia.

Further reading

• Pedro Miguel Ferrão, Manuel Jardim: memória de um percurso inacabado, 1884 - 1923, Ed. Câmara Municipal de Montemor-o-Velho, 2013
  ISBN 989-96835-3-1
• Henrique de Vilhena, A vida do pintor Manuel Jardim, Portugália-editora, 1945

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Manuel Jardim.

• "Memória de um percurso inacabado", an appreciation of Jardim by Júlia de Sousa @ the University of Coimbra.