Mário Eloy
Painting, Visual Artist
1900 – 1951
Who was Mário Eloy?
Mário Eloy was a Portuguese expressionist painter.
Eloy was born in Lisbon. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that he admired during his staying in Germany, from 1927 to 1932, especially Carl Hofer.
After returning to Portugal, he become the best representative from expressionism in the Portuguese painting. Some of his latter works, like "Enterro", in his references, seems to anticipate the surrealism painting in Portugal.
He had to leave painting due to a serious mental disease, in 1944, and he spent the rest of his life in a mental institution at Rio de Mouro, where he died.
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- Born
- Mar 15, 1900
Algés - Also known as
- Mario Eloy
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Died
- Sep 5, 1951
Lisbon
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on July 23, 2013
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