Tag: Montevideo
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Portrait of French-Uruguayan poet Jules Supervielle, Montevideo, 1944
Jules Supervielle (1884-1960) was a French writer and poet who was born in Montevideo and grew up between Uruguay and France. He started publishing poetry collections (Débarcadères, Gravitations), novels, short stories and plays in the early 1920s. He spent the war years in Uruguay, writing and translating, and gaining in recognition. In 1946 he returned…
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Vaclav Veltchek (photomontage), 1948
Vaclav Veltchek was a Czech dancer and ballet choreographer who emigrated to Brazil in 1939. He there founded and directed the modern ballet troupe Conjunto Coreográfico Brasileño, with which he visited Montevideo in 1948, and was guest choreographer for several ballet companies, such as the troupe of Montevideo’s Sodre Theatre. He was a precursor of…
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View of the Port and the Cerro, Montevideo
Collection of 29 postcards photographed by Jeanne (and Arno?) Mandello, published by “Lettres de France Ltda.”, Montevideo, approx. 1950. The original postcards are held in the National Library of Uruguay.
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