Elmina Moisan

Elmina Moisan (1897-1938) was a Chilean painter remembered in the historiography as part of the Generación del 13. She has been called the "female artist who has painted the best in Chile".[1]

Biography

Elmina Moisan was born in Quillota, 1897. Of French descent, Moisan entered the School of Fine Arts in 1912, being a student of the Spanish painter Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza and Ricardo Richon Brunet. After receiving her teaching degree with a major in visual arts, she taught at the Liceo de Chicas N ° 4 in Santiago.[2]

Her works are mainly portraits, scenes of customs, landscapes and still lifes made with a subtle and quite personal style.[3] Her painting, La coqueta (1916), won the first medal in the official salon of Santiago, in 1919.[4]

She married the painter Otto Georgi in 1926, who was also a member of the Generación del 13.[2]

Death and legacy

In 1938, the government of Chile invited Moisan to exhibit and study in Lima, Peru. During her trip, she contracted malaria, a situation that forced her to return to Chile where, after a month of illness, she died in the city of Santiago.[2]

The city of Rancagua, O'Higgins Region, a street bears the name of Elmina Moisan.

Selected works in public collections

La coqueta, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
  • Interior, Óleo sobre tela, 115 x 90 cm. 1926. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago de Chile.
  • La coqueta, Óleo sobre tela, 53 x 62 cm. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago de Chile.
  • Cabeza de vieja, Óleo sobre tela, 40 x 36 cm. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago de Chile.
  • Desnudo, Óleo sobre tela, 66 x 44 cm. Pinacoteca Universidad de Concepción.

Awards

  • 1936 - First Prize, Official Hall of Santiago.
  • 1929 - Gold Medal, Ibero-American Exhibition in Seville.
  • 1923 - Portrait Award, Official Hall of Santiago.
  • 1920 - Second Medal in Drawing, Official Hall of Santiago.
  • 1919 - First Medal, Official Hall of Santiago.
  • 1919 - Prize of Honor, Certamen Edwards, Santiago.
  • 1916 - Second Medal, Official Hall of Santiago.
  • 1916 - Customs Award, Certamen Edwards, Santiago.

References

  1. ↑ "Bellas Artes. Exposición retrospectiva de La Alhambra". La Nación. 29 December 1951.
  2. 1 2 3 "Elmina Moisan". www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl. Artistas Visuales Chilenos, AVCh, MNBA. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Pintores Chilenos: ELMINA MOISAN". www.pintoreslatinoamericanos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Espinoza A., Denisse (20 July 2017). "Artistas mujeres: la huella de las pioneras de la creación local". La Tercera. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
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