José Dias Coelho
José Dias Coelho (1923 in Pinhel – 1961 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In his youth, José Dias Coelho joined the Antifascist Academic Front. Later on, as a student of the Art Academy of Lisbon, he was a member of the Juvenile MUD. In 1947 he participated in a great number of student demonstrations and actively pressed for the creation of an Academic Association in the Art Academy and against the 1952 NATO meeting in Lisbon.
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José Dias Coelho
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- Born
- 1923 · Pinhel.
- Died
- 1961 · Lisbon.
- Nationality
- Portugal
- Occupation
- painter
- Education
- Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
- Languages
- Portuguese
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José Dias Coelho (1923 in Pinhel – 1961 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese painter and sculptor, an anti-fascist and an important member of the Portuguese Communist Party. In his youth, José Dias Coelho joined the Antifascist Academic Front. Later on, as a student of the Art Academy of Lisbon, he was a member of the Juvenile MUD. In 1947 he participated in a great number of student demonstrations and actively pressed for the creation of an Academic Association in the Art Academy and against the 1952 NATO meeting in Lisbon.
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He joined the Portuguese Communist Party in his early twenties and soon became an important member of the party's clandestine network that struggled against the Fascists. He died as a secret worker of the party when he was assassinated by PIDE, the political police of the Estado Novo regime, on 19 December 1961 on da Creche street in Lisbon, (now José Dias Coelho street).
José Dias Coelho is recorded as painter. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Jose Dias Coelho. His recorded language was Portuguese. He married Margarida Tengarrinha.
Sepultura de José Dias Coelho, no Cemitério de Benfica
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1923
José Dias Coelho born at Pinhel.
1961
José Dias Coelho died at Lisbon.
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- 1.A Morte de Dias Coelho. A defesa que a Ordem me confiou.
- 2.Catálogo da "Exposição-Homenagem a José Dias Coelho", Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, março de 1975
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