Gustavo Bacarisas
Honorary professor Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría • Spouse — Elsa Jernås Gustavo Bacarisa (1872–1971) GMH was a Gibraltarian painter. He was born in Gibraltar and died in Seville, Spain. His work, of a figurative style and varied themes, is characterised by the rich use of colour.
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Gustavo Bacarisas
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- Name
- Gustavo Bacarisa
- Born
- 1872
- Birthplace
- Gibraltar
- Died
- 1971
- Place of death
- Seville, Spain
- Awards
- Member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · Spain · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages
- Spanish
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Honorary professor Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría • Spouse — Elsa Jernås Gustavo Bacarisa (1872–1971) GMH was a Gibraltarian painter. He was born in Gibraltar and died in Seville, Spain. His work, of a figurative style and varied themes, is characterised by the rich use of colour.
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He was married to Swedish artist and designer Elsa Jernås.
Capilla de los Luises, Sevilla. Azulejo plano, pintado por Gustavo Bacarisas (ca. 1918) para Aníbal González Álvarez Ossorio.
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Capilla de los Luises, Sevilla. Azulejo plano, pintado por Gustavo Bacarisas (ca. 1918). Producido en la Fábrica de los Remedios, Sevilla.
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• Name — Gustavo Bacarisa • Born — 1872 • Birthplace — Gibraltar • Died — 1971 • Place of death — Seville, Spain • Awards — Member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
Career
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Bacarisas studied in Paris, France and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina, until 1916. He later relocated to the Andalusian capital of Seville. He also travelled to Sweden to create sets and figurines for the opera Carmen. He did the same for the premier of El amor brujo (Love, the Magician) at the Teatro Español in Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, he relocated to the Portuguese island of Madeira, returning in 1937 to Gibraltar. At the end of the Second World War, he moved to Spain, settling down in Seville. Bacarisas exhibited his work in many Spanish cities as well as abroad. He was granted a gold medal and the title of honorary professor by the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of St Isabella of Hungary) and was made a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
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1873
Gustavo Bacarisas was born on 1 January 1873.
1971
Gustavo Bacarisas died on 1 January 1971.
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Gustavo Bacarisas is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation painter.
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