Fernando Fader Biography
Fernando Fader (11 April 1882 – 25 February 1935) was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school, born in France. His father, of Prussian origin, moved the family to Argentina in 1884, settling in the western city of Mendoza, before returning to France a few years later. In 1900, Fader moved to Munich, where he enrolled in a local vocational school. This training allowed him to enroll at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he was guided by Heinrich von Zügel, a leading figure of the Barbizon naturalist school. He returned briefly to Buenos Aires, where his work was first exhibited at the Salón Costa in 1906. His landscapes quickly made him emerge as a post-impressionist painter.
Fader settled in Buenos Aires in 1914, where he won first prize at the fourth National Art Biennial. He visited art galleries in Spain and Germany and won the gold medal at the Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. His move to Córdoba, for health reasons, prompted him to concentrate on more impressionistic lines, using more light contrasts. His new setting also provided him with many bucolic inspirations, leading him to create many of his most famous works in this period, many of which romantically portrayed peasant life.
A third artistic period is characterized by a return to still lifes, nudes and self-portraits.
