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About Carlos Botelho

Portuguese · 1899–1982

Lisbon-born expressionist painter whose dense urban landscapes and social scenes documented the city across half a century.

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Carlos Botelho's works are held in 0 museums worldwide.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Who was Carlos Botelho?
    Carlos Botelho was a painter, comic artist, and illustrator born in Lisbon in 1899[1]; he died there in 1982[1]. He is known for paintings that record Lisbon urban life largely dissolved by the late twentieth century.
  • What is Carlos Botelho known for?
    Carlos Botelho is known for his paintings of Lisbon, which capture the city's trams, hills, laundry-draped facades, and afternoon light. He is also known for his comic strips for Ecos da Semana, his contributions to the children's weekly ABCzinho, and his work on the Portuguese[1] pavilions at the Paris expositions of 1930[1] and 1937 and the San Francisco and New York world's fairs of 1939.
  • What was Carlos Botelho's art style?
    Carlos Botelho's painting sits in expressionist territory, but with an emphasis on line as an autonomous element. He flattened and compressed his Lisbon views, giving them a graphic directness that feels closer to printmaking than to traditional oil painting; he was not interested in Renaissance perspective.

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  1. [1] wikipedia Wikipedia: Carlos Botelho Used for: biography.
  2. [2] book Ernst Hans Gombrich, Fritz Saxl, Aby Warburg _ an intellectual biography Used for: biography.
  3. [3] book Natalya Strizhkova Andrei Sarabyanov, Art and Power_ The Russian Avant-garde under Soviet Rule, 1917–1928 Used for: biography.
  4. [4] book guggenheim-latinamericanpai00catl Used for: biography.
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  7. [7] book Erwin Panofsky, The Codex Huygens And Leonardo Da Vinci's Art Theory Used for: biography.

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