Martinho de Haro (São Joaquim SC 1907 - Florianópolis SC 1985)
Painter, draftsman and muralist. He took up painting in Lages, Santa Catarina, in 1920, and held his first solo exhibition at the Municipal Council of Florianópolis in 1926. On a scholarship from the Santa Catarina state government, he studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (Enba) [National School of Fine Arts] in Rio de Janeiro from 1927 to 1937, taking classes with Henrique Cavalleiro (1892-1975) and Rodolfo Chambelland (1879-1967). He worked as an assistant to João Timótheo on the decoration of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Pompeia, in 1930, and to Eliseu Visconti (1866-1944) on the stage curtain of the Teatro Municipal, from 1930 to 1935. In 1931, he took part in the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes [National Salon of Fine Arts] organized by Lucio Costa (1902-1998). In 1938, he left for France, where he studied with Othon Friesz at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Because of the outbreak of war, he returned to São Joaquim in 1939, staying there until 1944, when he moved to Florianópolis, where he lived until his death.
Critiques
"Martinho de Haro is a Brazilian painter of lasting value, with a rare history spanning the pioneering and developing years of modern art in Brazil. Undoubtedly, alongside the landscapes of Pancetti and Guignard and the figures of Di Cavalcanti, Martinho de Haro's research stands out, almost unique today in its treatment of the nude and the still life. (...) In any case, without the theoretical and material flights of youthful discoveries, Martinho de Haro remained calm and sound, on the path of a painting that goes beyond the mere recording of its subject and transfigures, with a sensibility and color very much his own, regional atmospheres, the universality of provincial objects, the poetry of the body, from which he draws an unconventional level of beauty, much more of the spirit than of line. (...) Martinho de Haro worked through various themes: landscape, still life, portrait and self-portrait, religious motifs, nudes, flowers, etc. Despite this, the variation between phases in his career is very small. If we set aside the heavy painting of an expressionism laden with matter and shadow, from the 1920s, and the regional reminiscences of rural activities with which, in the 1930s, he first won the judgment of the Rio de Janeiro art world, all the rest was a confident variation on the same language".
Walmir Ayala
MARTINHO de Haro. Texto de Walmir Ayala. Rio de Janeiro: L. Christiano, 1986.
"There is little to say about the renewal of the visual arts in Santa Catarina in the final phase of the cycle that established modernism among us. The only figure who stands out there at that time, and even so given to withdrawal, is Martinho de Haro. (...) His painting, economical in its effects and lyrically disciplined, blending distant references to art nouveau with the geometrizing tendency of cubism, was especially concerned with capturing the local landscape through orderly rows of houses under soft skies".
Roberto Pontual
PONTUAL, Roberto. Entre dois séculos: arte brasileira do século XX na coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand. Rio de Janeiro: Jornal do Brasil, 1987.
Solo Exhibitions
1926 - Florianópolis SC - First solo exhibition, at Conselho Municipal de Florianópolis
1952 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Colégio Dias Velhos
1963 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Palácio das Diretorias
1967 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Redação do jornal O Estado
1970 - São Paulo SP - Solo, at Galeria Seta
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Chica da Silva
1972 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria Aliança Francesa
1974 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Galeria da Praça
1975 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Galeria de Arte do Studio A2
1977 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Solo, at Trevo Galeria de Arte
1978 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Galeria Ceisa Center
1982 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Galeria Lescaux
Group Exhibitions
1928 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 35th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1930 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 37th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1931 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Revolutionary Salon, at Enba
1932 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - General Exhibition of Fine Arts - bronze medal
1933 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 40th General Exhibition of Fine Arts, at Enba
1934 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - National Salon of Fine Arts - silver medal
1935 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - National Salon of Fine Arts - domestic travel prize
1937 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - National Salon of Fine Arts - foreign travel prize
1949 - Curitiba PR - 6th Paraná Fine Arts Salon, at SEC/DC
1952 - Curitiba PR - 9th Paraná Fine Arts Salon, at SEC/DC
1954 - Curitiba PR - Paraná Fine Arts Salon
1958 - Florianópolis SC - 1st Visual Arts Group Salon - homenagem especial
1958 - Porto Alegre RS - Pan-American Salon
1967 - Florianópolis SC - Arte 67, at DEC da UFSC
1970 - Blumenau SC - Barriga Verde Visual Arts Group Show, at Galeria Agu-Agu - Sociedade Dramática Carlos Gomes
1971 - Blumenau SC - Santa Catarina Artists Group Show
1971 - Florianópolis SC - 12 Artists from Florianópolis, at Masc
1971 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 50 Years of Brazilian Painting, at MAM/RJ
1972 - São Paulo SP - Art/Brazil/Today: 50 Years Later, at Galeria da Collectio
1973 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Martinho and Rodrigo de Haro, at Galerie de l'Alliance
1974 - Blumenau SC - 5th Barriga Verde Visual Arts Group Show, at Galeria Agu-Agu
1974 - Florianópolis SC - Artists from Florianópolis, at Assembleia Legislativa
1976 - Blumenau SC - 6th Barriga Verde Visual Arts Group Show, at Galeria Agu-Agu
1976 - Brasília DF - Exhibition of Santa Catarina Artists, at Clube Naval
1977 - Balneário de Camboriú SC - Panorama of Santa Catarina Art
1977 - Criciúma SC - Ars - Artis Criciúma, at Criciúma Clube/jornal O Estado
1977 - Curitiba PR - Santa Catarina Artists Group Show, at Galeria SH 316
1978 - Florianópolis SC - 1st Santa Catarina Bus Station Art Show, at Masc
1979 - Florianópolis SC - Eduardo Dias Memorial, at Assembleia Legislativa
1980 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 50 Years of Painting, at Galeria Trevo
1981 - Joinville SC - Masters of Brazilian Art, at Museu de Arte de Joinville
1981 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Universe of Carnival: Images and Reflections, at Acervo Galeria de Arte
1983 - Florianópolis SC - A Ilha Revisitada [The Island Revisited], at Masc
1983 - São Paulo SP - 14th Panorama of Current Brazilian Art, at MAM/SP
1984 - Florianópolis SC - Santa Catarina Art Panorama - Painting/84, at Masc/FCC
1984 - Fortaleza CE - 7th National Visual Arts Salon
1984 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Salão de 31 [The 1931 Salon], at Funarte
1984 - São Paulo SP - Art of Santa Catarina, at Faap
Posthumous Exhibitions
1986 - Florianópolis SC - Solo, at Masc
1986 - Florianópolis SC - Infinitamente... Martinho de Haro [Infinitely... Martinho de Haro], at Masc
1999 - Florianópolis SC - Drawings and Prints: MVM Collection - 1994 to 1999, at Museu Victor Meirelles
Source: Itaú Cultural
