Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (14 November 1887 – 25 October 1918) was a painter from Portugal. Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, a member of the first generation of Portuguese modernist painters, stands out for the remarkable quality of his work and the conversation he formed with the historical avant-gardes of the early twentieth century. "The artist developed, between Paris and Manhufe, the most serious possibility of modern art in Portugal in an international dialogue, intense but little known, with the artists of his time". His painting is articulated with open movements such as Cubism, Futurism, or Expressionism, reaching a level similar in everything to his cutting-edge output of modern world art in many moments - and in a sustained way in recent years.

Death at the age of 30 will signal the abrupt end of a completely mature pictorial work and a promising international career that is still in the process of confirmation. Amadeo would have been forgotten long ago, both inside and outside Portugal: "the silence that for many years covered the interpretive visibility of his work with a thick blanket" and "that was also the silence of Portugal as a country, not allowed the international historical update of the artist"; and "Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso just started his path of historiographic recognition."