Manuel Ortíz de Zárate

Manuel Ortíz de Zárate studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Pedro Lira Rencoret is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris and Netherlands. Work by Manuel Ortíz de Zárate is recorded in the collections of Groninger Museum, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Museum de Fundatie, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper and Memoria Chilena.

• Name — Manuel Ortíz de Zárate • Birth Name — Manuel Revuelta Ortíz de Zárate Pinto • Born — 9 October 1887 • Birthplace — Como, Kingdom of Italy • Died — 28 October 1946 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, US • Education — École des Beaux-Arts • Occupation — Painter • Years Active — 1902 to 1945 • Children — 2, including Laure Lourié • Family — Pinto family • Relatives — Eugène Lourié (son-in-law)

Ortiz was born 9 October 1887 in Como, Kingdom of Italy (present-day, Italy) to Eliodoro Ortíz de Zárate (1865–1953), a composer, and María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz. Through his mother Ortíz was a member of the Pinto family. One of three siblings, Ortíz was the younger brother of painter Julio Ortíz de Zárate. Ortíz was born whilst his father was studying at the Milan Conservatory. In 1891, aged four, Ortíz's family returned to Chile. He went on to study painting with Pedro Lira, before entering the Escuela de Bellas Artes (Academy of Fine Arts) in Santiago. At age 15, he fled home and stowed away on a ship to Italy. He studied painting in Rome, before being drawn to the burgeoning art scene in France, he made his way to Paris. There, he became part of the growing gathering of artists in the Montparnasse Quarter, making friends with Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Léonard Foujita, and some of the other future greats of the art world. Manuel Ortiz de Zárate studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, developing his modernist skills in the painting of still lifes and landscapes. In 1916, he became Picasso's art assistant. Between 1920 until 1940, Ortiz de Zárate showed his work at the Salon d’Automne, an annual art exhibition in Paris, France. Together with Camilo Mori and other artists from Chile, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate helped found the Grupo Montparnasse. During World War II, he remained in France despite the German occupation. After the war, he went to the United States where he died in 1946 in Los Angeles, California.

Ortíz was married to the Polish painter Jadwiga Piechowska, whom he meet whilst she was studying in Florence. Ortíz and Piechowska had two children, including the costume designer Laure Lourié (Ortiz de Zárate). Ortíz was the father-in-law of Eugène Lourié, and the former father-in-law of John Ferren.

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1887 at Como. Institutional cataloguing adds that manuel Ortíz de Zárate died in 1946 at Los Angeles. Recorded at birth as Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto.