Biography of Enrique Castells Capurro

Artist and illustrator born in Montevideo on March 9, 1913.

Self-taught, he directed his artistic activity towards the representation of scenes and customs of the campaign.

At age 10 he published his first notes on the dancer Ana Pavlow in the journal "Mundo Uruguayo".

At 14, he held an exhibition at Friends of the Arts of Montevideo, months then do it at Amigos del Arte in Buenos Aires, where he began to sell their work.

Since then continued to draw for various newspapers and magazines in Montevideo.

U.S. was the occasion of inaugurating an exhibition of forty-three of his works in the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel in New York.

A couple of years later he returned to America to paint a picture for one of the halls of the United Nations.

Kennedy also spoke at the Galleries of N. York where 5 of his works were acquired by Nelson Rockefeller.

The technique of drawing and watercolor mostly oil on canvas for his large paintings of historical subjects.

Also addressed by various cast sculpture in bronze equestrian issues, as trophies of the Jockey Club in their great prizes.

In 1957 he specialized in fresco painting, having used this technique in the mural recently moved from the Plaza de Maldonado to the esplanade of the Municipality of Maldonado, La Comercial del Este, past conduct diligence service between Maldonado, San Carlos and Montevideo.

His work achieved through dissemination unusual illustration of numerous books, albums, and calendars on ceramic reproduction.

Illustrated the famous Ascasubi Hilario Santos Vega, The Purple Land of William Hudson, the horses of the conquest of Cunningham, Riders of the Americas American publicist Edward Larocque Tinker, Pampero and Tierra Negra Ines Victoria. Cancioneros de Frutos Rivera, and others Tacuruses .

His drawings also came alive in the documentary film "Gauchos of Uruguay" that Harry Foster filmmaker shot for Columbia Pictures in the year 54.

In 1969 out in London at the Tryon Gallery, at which he is invited to visit the stables of the Queen Elizabeth, where he made sketches of training horses.

In 1987 the Polish consul in Uruguay was responsible for an oil painting donated to the Pope John Paul II during his visit to our country.

In 1998, his name means the square located to the northwest of the Park General Lavalleja between the streets swept, avenue Paul Harris and Italy.

Rural society has already asked the permit the family to use as a symbol of his drawings for the year 2009 for the Heritage Day.

Is currently awaiting the decision of the Nomenclature Committee to see if you can put your name to the street to stop 14 where the painter lived and did most of his works.

In the words of J. Serafin Garcia: "Enrique Castells Capurro is a genuine artist, who devoted their whole lives inspired and creative skills to express warm and fruitful field of ours, faithfully capturing beauty and grace, all those typical scenes that best represent.

Roman "size =" 3 "> The past and present of our field appear in the play with a resounding fullness, animated by a force happy and healthy, thanks to the influence of this dynamism that the artist never forgets to breathe your images .

As time passes, these native scenes Castells Capurro certainly will take on greater importance, since they rescued from oblivion, keeping it intact so that future generations can appreciate the true features of a time and in a manner of life that soon will no longer be just a memory, given the speed with which the material transforms our campaign progress and customs of its inhabitants. "