Elisa Berroeta

Elisa Berroeta Araya was a Chilean 20th-century engraver, illustrator, and visual artist.[1] She is known as one of the first female artists awarded scholarships by the Chilean government for studies in Europe.[2][3]

Elisa Berroeta
Born
Elisa Berroeta–Araya

Ovalle, Coquimbo, Chile
NationalityChilean
Occupation(s)Engraver, illustrator, visual artist
Years active1904–1912

Biography

Elisa Berroeta–Araya was born in the late 19th-century in Ovalle, in Coquimbo, Chile. She studied engraving at the Academy of Painting (Santiago, Chile) (formerly Escuela de Bellas Artes de Santiago) under French artist León Bazin.[4]

In 1905, Berroeta obtained a scholarship granted by the Chilean government to continue her artistic studies in Paris, where she lived and worked for three years. In that same year 1905, Chilean Zig Zag magazine named Berroeta, "a national artist (of Chile)" for her representation of her country abroad.[2] From roughly the 1880s to 1920s, it was common for wood engravings to be used for fine-art reproduction and for illustration.[5] In France she created many wood engraving reproductions of French art, some of which were published in Chilean Selecta magazine.

Berroeta participated in the annual salon, Exhibition of Fine Arts, Santiago (Spanish: Exposiciones de Bellas Artes, Santiago) in 1904,[6] 1906, and 1907.[7] In 1904, she was awarded a third prize medal for her two engravings at the Exhibition of Fine Arts, Santiago.[8]

References
  1. Cortés Aliaga, Gloria (2018). Modernas: Historias de Mujeres en el Arte Chileno 1900–1950 [Modern Women: stories of Women in Chilean Art 1900–1950]. Santiago, Chile: Origo. ISBN 9789563161465.
  2. "Una Artista Nacional". revista Zig Zag (in Spanish). No. 30. Empresa Editora Zig-Zag. September 10, 1905.
  3. Berríos, Pablo; Cancino, Eva; Guerrero, Claudio; Parra, Isidora; Santibañez, Kaliuska; Vargas, Natalia (2009). Del taller a las aulas. La institución moderna del arte en Chile (1797–1910). Estudios de Arte. pp. 386–387. ISBN 978-956-332-305-4.
  4. Ramírez, Verónica; Romo, Manuel; Ulloa, Carla (2017). Antología Crítica de Mujeres en la Prensa Chilena del Siglo XIX [Critical Anthology of Women in the Chilean Press 19th century] (in Spanish). Ñuñoa. ISBN 978-9562609821.
  5. Hamerton, Philip; Spielmann, Marion (1911). "Wood Engraving" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 798–801.
  6. Elgueta, Sara Guerín de (1928). Actividades femeninas en Chile (in Spanish). La Ilustración. p. 685.
  7. Anales (in Spanish). Vol. 123. Universidad de Chile. 1908. p. 989.
  8. Catálogo oficial ilustrado (in Spanish). Imprenta Barcelona. 1910. p. 126.
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