Emmerico Nunes was a Portuguese painter, illustrator and cartoonist. He belongs to the first generation of Portuguese modernist artists.
Background
Ethnicity:
Emmerico Nunes' mother was German, while his father was Portuguese.
Nunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 6, 1888. He was a distant progeny of Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Career
Emmerico Nunes moved from Portugal to Paris in 1906, where he remained until 1911. Between 1911 and 1914 he lived in Munich, becoming a contributor to the weekly magazine Meggendorfer Blätter. After the beginning of World War I, he escaped to Zurich, residing there until 1918. In Zurich he held individual exhibitions in Switzerland and Lisbon.
Nunes returned to Portugal in 1918. He became a collaborator of the weekly magazine Fliegende Blätter, serving from 1919 to 1936. Between 1920 and 1936 he also collaborated with the Spanish magazines Buen Humor, Sphere and World Graphic. Being a painter, advertising designer, illustrator and also a restorer of paintings, the painter exhibited his humorous drawings at the Humorist Expositions between 1912 and 1924. In addition to hundreds of humorous drawings published in Swiss, German, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese periodicals, his artworks included portraits, self-portraits, and landscapes.
He presented his works at the exhibitions of the National Society of Fine Arts between 1910 and 1956 and also participated in the SPN/SNI Modern Art Exhibitions from 1935 to 1951. Between 1937 and 1939, he joined the team of decorators of the SPN (Secretariat of National Propaganda) and was commissioned to carry out the Portuguese pavilions at the exhibitions in Paris, New York, and St. Francis (International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques, Paris, 1937, New York World's Fair, 1939, International Exhibition of St. Francis, California, 1939). The team included Bernardo Marques, Fred Kradolfer, Thomaz de Mello, Carlos Botelho, and José Rocha. Emmerico Nunes participated in the decoration of the Portuguese World Exhibition in 1940.