Rogelio Yrurtia

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Sculptor Rogelio Yrurtia

Rogelio Yrurtia (December 6, 1879 – March 4, 1950) was a renowned

Realist
school.

Life and work

Born in

St. Louis, Missouri
.

Yrurtia returned to Buenos Aires in 1905, where he presented a number of exhibitions and, in 1907, was commissioned to create a monument to 1820s-era Argentine statesman

Barcelona, Spain, his work earned him a Grand Prize at the 1911 International Arts Exposition there. Upon his return to Buenos Aires in 1916, Yrurtia was commissioned to sculpt a likeness of Bernardino Rivadavia, the first Constitutional President of Argentina, for a mausoleum planned in his honor for Plaza Miserere
(it's worth noting that Rivadavia, who died in exile in 1845, had requested that his remains not return to Argentina).

Continuing to exhibit successfully in Argentina and abroad, the city of Buenos Aires commissioned him for the creation of a monument to grace a median plaza along

Argentine Supreme Court
.

Creating a Moses for the 1937 grand opening of the Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum in Rosario, Yrurtia became one of the founding members of the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1938 and he continued to exhibit periodically, working from his Baroque home in the Belgrano section of Buenos Aires. Yrurtia died there in 1950, bequeathing his home as a museum. The Boxers, one of his last works, stands in the central courtyard.

  • Ode to Labour
    Ode to Labour
  • Ode to Labour – detail
    Ode to Labour – detail
  • Monument to Bernardino Rivadavia
    Monument to Bernardino Rivadavia
  • The Boxers, Yrurtia Museum
    The Boxers, Yrurtia Museum
  • Alegoría de la Fatalidad (1926), part of Monument to Manuel Dorrego, Buenos Aires
    Alegoría de la Fatalidad (1926), part of Monument to Manuel Dorrego, Buenos Aires

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