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Carlos Carneiro

Carlos Carneiro 1900-1971 Painter

Carlos Carneiro was born in Porto on 20 September 1900 to an influential family of artists. He was the son of painter António Carneiro (1872-1930) and Rosa Carneiro, brother of Cláudio (1895-1963), a composer, and Maria Josefina (1898-1925).

He showed good skills for drawing and illustration from a very young age. As a child, he invented cartoons, sports characters and copied the work of other artists. In the early 1910s, he designed the magazine "O Echo", as well as its graphic layout, invented historical drawings, invented a newspaper named "O Bexigueiro" and received an illustration prize from the newspaper "O Século".
He began to visit Paris on a regular basis, a habit he kept throughout his life, keeping also notes on these travels in his notebooks.

He attended the Porto School of Fine Arts, where he was taught by both his father and by Marques de Oliveira and was a fellow colleague of Eduardo Malta (1900-1967) and Henrique Medina (1901-1988), among others.

He participated in a group exhibition for the first time in 1919, at the "Humoristas Salon", with renowned artists such as Almada Negreiros, Jorge Barradas and Eduardo Viana, and in his first solo exhibition in 1924, in Porto.

In 1925, he witnessed the opening of the António Carneiro House-Workshop, a facility which housed living quarters and an exhibition venue, with two workshops, one for his father and one for himself, and a social area for the cultural and social gatherings of the "Renascença Portuguesa" group members. Twenty four years after the death of his father, António Carneiro, the building was split between him and his brother. In 1958, the City Council bought his Exhibition Salon and its contents, and the remaining facilities in 1966, aiming to set up a museum to exhibit the painting collections of António and Carlos Carneiro and the family’s personal objects. This museum was opened in 1973, and improved in 1991 with the donation of the estate of both plastic artists, offered by Nuno Carneiro, and refurbished at the end of the 1990s. In 2003, the Museum became part of the Portuguese Museum Network.

As a learned and travelled man, Carlos Carneiro wanted to learn more about the paintings of many international artists and, at the same time, create an independent art, which he accommodated with other activities such as chronicles in the press and art critique.

He never had to work on a tight schedule and was not seduced by teaching. His social life was intense and he had many friends, such as the sculptor Barata Feyo and the poets Teixeira de Pascoaes, Pedro Homem de Melo and Eugénio de Andrade. He enjoyed travelling, horse-riding competitions, winter sports and reading.

Carlos Carneiro died of a heart attack in Porto on 11 October 1971 and was buried in Agramonte Cemetery.

His modern works are part of national and international private collections (Vigo, London, Manchester, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Antwerp, Chamonix, Geneva, La Lenk, S. Jean de Luz, Dunkirk, Cleveland, etc.) and is shown at the Chiado Museum, in Lisbon, National Museum Soares dos Reis, in Porto, Modern Art Centre of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, Machado de Castro Museum, in Coimbra, Malhoa Museum, in Caldas da Rainha, Grão Vasco Museum, in Viseu, Alberto Sampaio Museum, in Guimarães, Municipal Museum Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, in Amarante, at the City Council of Matosinhos, and at the Mulhouse Fine Arts Museum.
(Universidade Digital / Gestão de Informação, 2009)