Mário Eloy

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Mário Eloy (1900 - 1951) was a Portuguese expressionist painter. His style shows the influence of painters like van Gogh, Picasso and, mostly, from the German expressionist painting, that he admired during his staying in Germany, from 1927 to 1932, specially Carl Hofer. After returning to Portugal, he become the best representative from expressionism in the Portuguese painting. Some of his latter works, like "Enterro" (c. 1940), in his references, seems to anticipate the surrealism painting in Portugal. A serious mental disease made him leave painting, in 1944, and he spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, where he died.

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