Francisco Manuel Oller
1833-1917.
Impressionist painter and educating Puerto Rican, started by Spain and France,
where he was companion of some teachers of the French impressionism. The
best painter Puerto Rican of XIX century he is considered. He was the painter of
camera of Amadeo I.
He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1833, at the of eighteen years he
transferred to Madrid to complete his studies and he registered in the Academy
of San Fernando, where he had teachers like, Federico de Madrazo.
In 1853 he returned to Puerto Rico and five years later he transferred to
Paris, where he studies in the works of T. Couture, simultaneously that
registers like cotrack in the Louvre, where he had teacher like,
Gustave Courbet.
In order to be able to live, he worked as sacristan and baritone in a company of
Italian opera and frequents the Guerbois coffee and the brasserie Andler, where
he met Degas, Pissarro and Zola.
In 1859 he registered in the works of Gleyre next to Bazille, Renoir, Monet and
Sisley; later he met Cézanne and in 1861 he visited the works of Courbet.
When in 1865 he returned to Puerto Rico, became the first artist of
Hispanic speech in following the impressionists.
In 1868 he inaugurated in the capital a gratuitous academy of drawing and
painting, and, after several trips to Europe, in 1876 he settled down in Madrid,
where he received numerous orders of pictures, landscapes and scenes of sort.
At that time, they were of colonel Contreras in Treviño (1878) and Un Medigo/I
beg (1881).
In 1884 he returned to Puerto Rico where, five years later, he founded a school
of drawing and painting for young ladies. Named professor of Arts in the
Normal School (later National University) in 1902.
His contribution as painter and educator were decisive for the formation of a
national tradition, being considered like the most important Puerto Rican
painter of 19th century .
In 1871 he was named Caballero of the Order of Carlos III and a year later
painter of the Real Camera of Amadeo I. With him arised in the island, the
interest to bring to the Puerto Rican reality, of its landscape, its
people and their customs.
His art goes from the realism of its beginnings of impressionist that
learned from the French teachers.
Between his works they emphasize: El pleito de la herencia
(1854-5186), Picture of Manuel Sicardó
(1866-1868), El Molino (1875), Las lavanderas(1887-1888), El Velorio (1893) and
Bodegón con piñas (1912-1914).
La escuela del maestro Rafael Cordero Francisco Oller 1890-92
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