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Fernando Botero
Colombian painter and sculptor (1932–2023)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 April 1932
- Died
- 15 September 2023, 2023
- Place of birth
- Medellín
- Place of death
- Monaco
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Fernando
- Family name
- Botero
- Spouse
- Gloria Zea, Sophía Vári
- Child
- Fernando Botero Zea
- Movement
- contemporary art
- Genre
- figurative art, allegory, portrait
- Field of work
- art of sculpture, figurative art, painting
- Occupation
- painter, sculptor, draftsperson, illustrator, architectural drafter, plastic artist
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Cruz de Boyaca, honorary doctor of the University of Miami
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- birth name
- Luis Fernando Botero Angulo
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- copyright representative
- reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- end of work period
- 2012
- ethnic group
- Colombians
- floruit
- 1977
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Art Institute of Chicago, The Phillips Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Yale University Art Gallery, Hungarian National Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
- influenced by
- Francisco Goya, Diego Velázquez, Piero della Francesca, Diego Rivera
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Spanish
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- name in native language
- Fernando Botero
- notable work
- The Bullfight, The death of Luis Chalmeta, The Raval Cat
- number of children
- 4
- participant in
- Documenta 6
- place of burial
- Pietrasanta
- professorship
- Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Arts
- second family name in Spanish name
- Angulo
- start of work period
- 1947
- topic's main category
- Category:Fernando Botero
- work location
- Bogotá, Paris, Germany, Pietrasanta, Mexico, New York City, Medellín
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