Elmina Moisan (1897-1938) was a Chilean painter remembered in the historiography as part of the Generación del 13. She has been called the "female artist who has painted the best in Chile".[1]
Elmina Moisan (1897-1938) was a Chilean painter remembered in the historiography as part of the Generación del 13. She has been called the "female artist who has painted the best in Chile".[1]
Elmina Moisan was born in Quillota, 1897. Of French descent, Moisan entered the School of Fine Arts in 1912, being a student of the Spanish painter Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza and Ricardo Richon Brunet. After receiving her teaching degree with a major in visual arts, she taught at the Liceo de Chicas N ° 4 in Santiago.[2]
Her works are mainly portraits, scenes of customs, landscapes and still lifes made with a subtle and quite personal style.[3] Her painting, La coqueta (1916), won the first medal in the official salon of Santiago, in 1919.[4]
She married the painter Otto Georgi in 1926, who was also a member of the Generación del 13.[2]
In 1938, the government of Chile invited Moisan to exhibit and study in Lima, Peru. During her trip, she contracted malaria, a situation that forced her to return to Chile where, after a month of illness, she died in the city of Santiago.[2]
The city of Rancagua, O'Higgins Region, a street bears the name of Elmina Moisan.
