Portuguese1887–1918
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
A Portuguese painter from a village near Amarante who moved to Paris at 19, where his friends included Modigliani, Juan Gris and Robert and Sonia Delaunay. Drawing on Cubism and Futurism, he became one of Portugal's first modern painters, and in 1913 he showed at the Armory Show in New York and the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. He died of the Spanish flu in 1918, aged 30.
A life in paintings
- 1887Born
- 1907Cubism begins
In Paris, Picasso and Braque start breaking objects into geometric planes.
- 1913The Armory Show
Shows in New York, and the same year at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin.
Source: Wikipedia - 1918Died
In Paris the Portuguese painter became a close friend of Modigliani, who showed sculptures in Souza-Cardoso's studio.
In Paris Souza-Cardoso became a close friend of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. In 1913 both men showed at the Armory Show and at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin.
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Exhibition · Berlin · 1913
Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon (1913)
The First German Autumn Salon, organised by Herwarth Walden at his Der Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1913 and curated by August Macke and Franz Marc. It included a memorial show for Henri Rousseau.
- Alexej von Jawlensky
- August Macke
- Fernand Léger
- Franz Marc
- Henri Rousseau
- Marsden Hartley
- Paul Klee
- Piet Mondrian
- Robert Delaunay
- Wassily Kandinsky
Where to see them
Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
Lisbon
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