A Portuguese Painter

Hi exchangers,

Today I brought you one of my favourite Portuguese painters.

He was born in 1887 and died in 1918 with the ‘Spanish flu’.  In 1906 he travelled to Paris  and settled in Montparnasse. He studied Architecture, but dropped his degree to develop his skills as a draftsman and caricaturist, and to follow the Parisian art scene.

After 1910 he developed  friendship with famous  painters, which helped him to developed a vital theoretical and pictorial research. His oeuvre, characterised by constant investigation and the reformulation of concepts and pictorial practices, engaged with almost all the aesthetic movements relating to the rupture of conventional art. He experimented a large number of modernist movements, from Cubism to abstract art, Expressionism to Futurism.

I hope you find out his name quickly and love him as much as I do : )