Andres Etchebarne Bidart - Artist Info

About Andres Etchebarne Bidart

  • Biography

    Andrés Etchebarne was a disciple of the painter Carlos María Herrera at the recently founded Círculo de Bellas Artes. At the end of 1913 he traveled to Europe and settled in Paris, Munich and other cities, until he arrived in Mallorca, where he stayed for a longer period of time.

    During his stay in Europe he was influenced by the masters Anglada Camarasa and Puvis de Chavannes. In 1915 he returned to Uruguay and made repeated trips to the interior of the country whose landscapes he captured in his works.

    In 1917 he became a professor of drawing at the high school in Melo, a position he held until his death. Currently his work is kept in the Juan Manuel Blanes Museum in Montevideo, among other inst...

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