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.
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.
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.
Emmerico Nunes was an outstanding painter of the 20th century. For his achievements, he received the 1st Caricature Medal in 1910 and the 2nd Medal of Painting in 1917. In 1940 he received the Order of Christ.
Even today his works are respected and beloved. In the year 1972 his multi-faceted works were presented at the National Information Secretariat, Lisbon. In 2013 the Center for Modern Art José de Azeredo Perdigão organized an exhibition titled The Lost Work of Emmerico Nunes, which showed for the first time a coherent set of his collaboration for the German periodical Meggendorfer Blätter.
