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Biography
Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso was born in Manhufe (Amarante) and died in Espinho, north of Portugal. In 1906, he left for Paris where he began working as a draughtsman and caricaturist. He got acquainted with Modigliani, Brancusi, Juan Gris, Max Jacob, Sónia and Robert Delaunay, among others. In 1913 he integrated the famous exhibition Armory Show in New York and exhibited as well Galeria Der Sturm in Berlin. With the eruption of the first world war he returned to Portugal. Between 1915 and 1916 he became friend with the Sonia and Robert Delaunay who came to live in Portugal, and by then he got near the group of the Orfeo and of Almada Negreiros. During this period he exhibited in Lisbon and Oporto. A sua obra, do cubismo ao dadaísmo, furismo, abstracção e expressionismo, foi um campo de experimentação para a compreensão das diferentes correntes. His work was a field of experiment of the different movements, from cubism, to dadaism, futurism, abstraction and expressionism. In a very short period of time, Amadeo was the artist who presented the most serious proposals of modern art in Portugal.
Exhibitions
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Art Wine Passion Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal, Portugal 29-04-2004 ~ 28-07-2004
Retrospective de l'oeuvre de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Galerie Briant-Robert, France 01-01-1925 ~ 31-12-1925
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Casa de Portugal, France ~
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso 1887-1918 Secretariado Nacional da Informação, Portugal 01-01-1959 ~ 31-12-1959
Centenário do Nascimento de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian /CAMJAP, Portugal 01-01-1987 ~ 31-12-1987
Europalia 91 Europalia 91, Belgium 01-01-1991 ~ 31-12-1991
Mondrian e Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Fundação de Serralves, Portugal 28-06-2001 ~ 14-10-2001
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso Avant-Garde Dialogues Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian /CAMJAP, Portugal 15-11-2006 ~ 15-01-2007
Bibliography
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1958 Published by Casa de Portugal
Amadeo de Souza Cardoso 1887-1918, 1959 Published by S.N.I.
Centenário do Nascimento de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1987 Published by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Retrospective de l'oeuvre de Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, 1925 Published by Galerie Briant-Robert
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