Amalia Polleri
Uruguayan teacher, artist, poet, journalist, art critic
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Amalia Polleri de Viana (26 June 1909 – 18 June 1996) was a Uruguayan teacher, artist, poet, journalist, and art critic.
Amalia Polleri | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 June 1909 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | 18 June 1996 (aged 86) |
| Occupations | Teacher, artist, poet, journalist, art critic |
| Mother | Fanny Carrió |
| Awards | Golden Candelabrum Award |
Biography
Amalia Polleri devoted herself to painting, sculpture, engraving, poetry, and storytelling. She was a teacher of drawing and defender of women's rights. She wrote for La República, El Diario, La Mañana, Brecha, and other print media. She also worked in radio journalism.[1] She received the Golden Candelabrum Award from B'nai B'rith Uruguay.[2]
She was a teacher of secondary education at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas and Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU).[1]
Polleri died on 18 June 1996, at the age of 86.[3]
In 2013, an exhibition was held at the Museo Gurvich that reviewed part of her work.[4]
Awards
Works
- El niño loco (drawing, First Prize Drawing and Engraving, National Salon 1942)
- El lenguaje gráfico plástico: manual para docentes estudiantes y artistas, Amalia Polleri, María Celia Rovira, and Brenda Lissardy.
- Arte y Comunicación visual. Metodología y dimensión futura (1994) with Amalia Polleri and María Celia Rovira[7]