Frederico Lange de Morretes (Morretes PR 1892 - Curitiba PR 1954)
Painter, draftsman, printmaker and teacher.
Frederico Lange studied painting with Alfredo Andersen in Curitiba around 1908. Two years later, he traveled to Germany, where he studied graphic arts in Leipzig, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1915 to 1920, and held a solo exhibition in Cologne. Back in Brazil, he taught anatomy and physiology at the Escola de Belas Artes do Paraná [Paraná School of Fine Arts] and founded the Escola de Desenho e Pintura [School of Drawing and Painting], where he taught until 1932, with students such as Oswald Lopes, Arthur Nísio, Augusto Conte, Kurt Boiger and others. Alongside João Turin and João Ghelfi, he fought for the proposal of a characteristic style for the art of Paraná.
Critiques
"The canvases of Frederico Lange de Morretes show us an artist bold in his intentions and advanced in his processes, earning him a very worthy place in the new generation of Brazilian painters: they vigorously demonstrate his pictorial talent".
Silveira Neto
LEITE, José Roberto Teixeira. Dicionário crítico da pintura no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Artlivre, 1988.
Solo Exhibitions
n.d. - Munich (Germany) - Solo
n.d. - Cologne (Germany) - Solo
ca. 1920 - Curitiba PR - Solo
Group Exhibitions
1927 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 34ª Exposição Geral de Belas Artes [34th General Exhibition of Fine Arts], at Enba - bronze medal
1942 - São Paulo SP - 7º Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos [7th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union], at Galeria Prestes Maia
1944 - São Paulo SP - 9º Salão do Sindicato dos Artistas Plásticos [9th Salon of the Visual Artists' Union], at Galeria Prestes Maia
1947 - Curitiba PR - 4º Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes [4th Paraná Fine Arts Salon], at Edifício do Orfeão da Escola Normal de Curitiba
1949 - São Paulo SP - 15º Salão Paulista de Belas Artes [15th São Paulo Fine Arts Salon], at Galeria Prestes Maia
Posthumous Exhibitions
1954 - Curitiba PR - The Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes [Paraná Fine Arts Salon] awards him the gold medal
1964 - Curitiba PR - Pioneiros da Pintura no Paraná [Pioneers of Painting in Paraná]
1971 - Curitiba PR - Lange de Morretes: retrospectiva [Lange de Morretes: Retrospective], at Museu Alfredo Andersen
1975 - Curitiba PR - 32º Salão Paranaense [32nd Paraná Salon], Special Room
1975 - Curitiba PR - Panorama da Arte no Paraná: Dos Precursores à Escola Andersen [Panorama of Art in Paraná: From the Precursors to the Andersen School], at Salão de Exposições do Badep
1982 - Curitiba PR - Solo, at Museu Alfredo Andersen
1986 - Curitiba PR - Tradição/Contradição [Tradition/Contradiction], at MAC/PR
1990 - Curitiba PR - 9ª Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba - A Litografia no Paraná [9th Curitiba City Printmaking Exhibition - Lithography in Paraná], at Museu Guido Viaro
2004 - Curitiba PR - A Paisagem Paranaense e seus Pintores [The Paraná Landscape and Its Painters], at Casa Andrade Muricy
Source: Itaú Cultural
