Raul PEDROZA

Background

PEDROZA, Raul was born on October 29, 1892 in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Education

Educated in Pau, Lower Pyrenees, France, and school of fine arts, University do Brasil.

Career

Director of plastic arts, Associagáo dos Artistas Brasileros, since 1931. Secretary-director, P.E.N. Club, since 1936, and its representative at International Congress of P.E.N. Clubs, Paris, 1937. Government delegate, International Theater Congress, Paris, 1937.

Principal zi'orks: plays—Cinzas, 1916. Cegos ao sol, 1922; Comédia da vida (prize from Academy Brasileira de Letras). Os Tres maridos; L’Eventail blanc: Joáo Caetano.

A Verdade; Corpo e alma. Zé do pato; O Chalaga. Engravings—series entitled Poemas grotescos e macabros.

Cafard, in Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires. Painting—Igreja colonial, purchased by Berlin, Germany, museum.

Connections

Father:

Fabricio Gomes Pedroza

Mother:

Isabel de Albuquerque Maranháo

Spouse:

Olga Mary Pedroza

child:

Misabel PEDROZA

child:

Marilia PEDROZA