Manuel Ortiz de Zárate Pinto (October 9, 1887 – October 28, 1946) was a Chile

Chile

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an painter.

Born Manuel Revuelta Ortiz de Zárate Pinto in Como

Como

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, Italy

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, he was the son of Chilean composer Eleodoro Ortiz de Zárate and of María Cristina Pinto Errázuriz. He was four years old when the family moved back to Chile where he went on to study painting with Pedro Lira

Pedro Lira

Pedro Lira was a Chilean painter. He was one of the founders of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts- Biography :Lira came from a wealthy family, the son of José Calvo Santos Lira and Martina Rencoret Cienfuegos...

 (1845-1912) before entering the Escuela de Bellas Artes (Academy of Fine Arts) in Santiago

Santiago, Chile

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.

Drawn to the burgeoning art scene in France

France

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, in 1904 he sailed to Marseille

Marseille

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 then made his way to Paris. There, he became part of the growing gathering of artists in the Montparnasse Quarter, making friends with Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form...

 and some of the other future greats of the art world.

Manuel Ortiz de Zárate studied at the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

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 in Paris, developing his modernist

Modernism

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 skills in the painting of still lifes and landscapes. Seen here, is his depiction of Notre Dame Cathedral

Together with Camilo Mori

Camilo Mori

Camilo Mori Serrano was a painter and a founder of the Grupo Montparnasse....

 and other artists from Chile, Manuel Ortiz de Zárate helped found the Grupo Montparnasse

Grupo Montparnasse

The Grupo Montparnasse was an organization of Chilean artists who had joined the gathering of great artists in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France, in the early part of the 20th century...

. During World War II

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, he remained in France despite the German

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 occupation. After the war, he went to the United States

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 where he died in 1946 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. His daughter's first husband was the California abstract

Abstract art

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 painter, John Ferren (1905-1970); her second husband was the Russian-born production designer Eugène Lourié

Eugène Lourié

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(1902-1991).