Nationality Chilean | Role Artist Name Alfredo Puelma | |
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Full Name Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma Awards 1877 - First place, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1878 - First and second place, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1880 - First place, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1884 - First place, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1889 - Honorable mention, Salon de Paris, France; 1890 - Third place, Salon de Otono, Madrid, Spain; 1892 - Marcos Maturana award , Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1892 - Edwards Award, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1896 - First place, Exposicion Municipal de Valparaiso, Chile; 1899 - Edwards Award, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1901 - Third place, Exposicion de Buffalo, United States; 1903 - Edwards Award, Salon Oficial, Santiago, Chile; 1929 - Third place, Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, Spain. Similar Alberto Valenzuela Llanos, Pedro Lira, Juan Francisco González | ||
Alfredo valenzuela puelma pintor chileno
Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma (Valparaiso, February 8, 1856 – Villejuif, France, October 27, 1909), was one of Chile's best-known painters and one of the four artists known as the Great Chilean Masters.
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- Alfredo valenzuela puelma pintor chileno
- ALFREDO VALENZUELA PUELMA
- Biography
- Style
- Awards and distinctions
- Selected list of works
- References
ALFREDO VALENZUELA PUELMA
Biography
Alfredo showed a talent and interest in art from an early age. At the age of twelve, he began attending the Academy of Fine Arts where he learned from Ernesto Kirchbach and Juan Mochi. For the first few years he combined artistic training with the study of medicine.
Between 1881 and 1885 he was awarded a scholarship from the Chilean Government to continue his art studies at the workshop of Benjamin Constant in Paris. He also took courses in anatomy at the Sorbonne, where he made contact with movements that would go on to revolutionise art history, like the Manet School. However, it was the work of the Spanish masters that he copied at the Louvre that made the deepest impression on him, and were more of an influence on his style.
In 1887, for the second time, he won a scholarship to study in Paris this time attended the workshop of Jean Paul Laurens. Whilst studying in France and upon his return to Chile, he submitted his works to be included in most art galleries and art contests in Santiago, and won awards on several occasions. During the last decade of the 19th century, when living in Valparaíso, he played an active role as an administrator at the Theater La Victoria, as well as managing art exhibitions.
Valenzuela Puelma made his final trip to France in 1907 and never returned to Chile. He was suffering from persistent depression and mental illness that left him destitute and led ultimately to his death at the age of 53. His remains were later repatriated to Chile and honored at a grand ceremony held in the main hall of the National Museum of Fine Arts.
Although Valenzuela Puelma was not formally dedicated to teaching, his students included the painters Alfredo Helsby and Eucarpio Espinosa, among others, which is why critic and historian Antonio Romera includes him in the group of the Great Masters of Chilean painting.
Style
Valenzuela Puelma successfully developed a realistic technique based on the canon of academic art. Throughout his productive career, he worked using oils and painted a very diverse range of subjects, such as landscapes, interiors, portraits, still lifes and especially nudes. These include "La Perla del Mercader" (The Merchant’s Pearl), one of the most popular paintings in the Chilean art world. He is also known for his penchant for Arabic motifs, reflecting the influence of his teacher, Constant.
Awards and distinctions
