Emilia Bertolé

Argentine poet and painter

Emilia Bertolé

Born	1896 Rosario
Died	1949 Rosario
Nationality	Argentine
Education	Institute of Fine Arts "Doménico Morelli"
Occupation	painter

Emilia Bertolé (1896–1949) was an Argentinian poet and painter.

Life

Bertolé was born in Rosario on 21 June 1896.^[1] She studied with the Italian teacher Mateo Casella at the Institute of Fine Arts "Doménico Morelli". She continued her painting and in 1912 she joined an exhibition with Erminio Blotta, Alfredo Guido, Manuel Musto, César Caggiano, Gustavo Cochet.

In 1927 she was the first woman to have her painting exhibited at the May Salon of the Santa Fe Museum "Rosa Galisteo Rodriguez". Her painting "Clarity" was of a woman looking thoughtful and it was bought by the museum.^[2]

In 1929 Bertolé created three portraits of ex-President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

The Uruguayan writer, Horacio Quiroga, led the Anaconda group and Bertolé became a member together with Ana Weiss de Rossi, Amparo de Hieken, Ricardo Hicken, Berta Singerman^[3] and Alfonsina Storni.^[4]

In 1927 her only poetry book, Shadow Mirror, was published.^[5] She prepared another book but it was not published in her lifetime.

She illustrated the covers of the magazines El Hogar y Sintonía.

Death and legacy

She died in her home town in 1949. In 2006, her poetic and pictorial work, was published and this included previously unpublished poetry. a portrait gallery and it reprinted Shadow Mirror. The book was introduced by Nora Avaro and included a discussion of her sculpture work by Rafael Sender.^[6] The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History notes her contribution to history.^[7]

Bertolé died in Rosario in 1949.

References

^ "La historia de la artista Emilia Bertolé, la dama olvidada". Rosario Nuestro (in Spanish). 2017-09-04. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
^ "MUJERES PIONERAS EN EL SALÓN DE MAYO - Museo Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez". Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-12-22. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
^ Quiroga, Horacio (1996). Todos los cuentos (in Spanish). EdUSP. ISBN 978-84-89666-25-2.
^ Delgado, Josefina (2012-02-01). Alfonsina Storni: Una biografía esencial (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. ISBN 978-987-566-776-1.
^ Bertolé, Emilia (1927). Espejo en sombra (in Spanish).
^ "Emilia Bertolé". EMR - Editorial Municipal de Rosario (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-12-23.
^ Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.

External links

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"Ontdek schilder, auteur Emilia Bertolé". rkd.nl. Retrieved 2019-12-23.
Equipo de Desarrollo de la Dirección de Sistemas | Secretaría de Gobierno de Cultura. "Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes". bellasartes.gob.ar. Retrieved 2019-12-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
"id.worldcat.org/fast/1532152". id.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2019-12-23.