Guilherme De Santa Rita

Place: Lisbon

Born: 1889

Death: 1918

Biography:

Santa-Rita Pintor, born Guilherme Augusto Cau da Costa de Santa-Rita by Mário de Sá-Carneiro. Four years later, he and José de Almada Negreiros were the main participants at a conference in the Teatro República, where Futurist documents were read and a manifesto announced. That same year, he helped launch the journal Portugal Futurista. Only one issue was published, and most of the copies were seized by the police due to alleged obscenity.
He died of tuberculosis at his parents' home in 1918, leaving instructions to destroy all of his works. A few paintings survived in the hands of collectors and friends. They are now in the possession of the Ministry of Culture and the Chiado Museum. Others were partially preserved as black and white illustrations in Portugal Futurista and a similar journal called Orpheu.

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