Isolda Hermes da Fonseca

CURRICULUM

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 7 April 1924

Studies

1947/48 Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C., USA

1948/49 New York, USA

1949/51 Florence, Italy

COLLECTIVES

1947/48 Corcoran Gallery, Washington and Artists, USA

Cooperative, Washington, USA

1948 Washington Outdoor Show, USA

1951/63 Salão de Arte Moderna Rio, Brazil

1964 University of Delaware, USA

Bertuche Gallery New york, USA

Paintings and Drawings, Madison Avenue, New York, USA

1964/68 Herbert Star Gallery, New York USA

1965 Brazilian Cultural center, New York, USA

Brian Gallery New York, USA

Adelphi University, New York, USA

1976 Coletiva de Verão, Ranulfo Galeria, Recife, Brazil

1990-'Poetische Kunst'-Galerie Studio, Gent, Belgium

1991 Exposição Nipo Brasileira Bikokai Rio, Brazil

2005 Galeria Embaixada da Argentina Rio, Brazil

and other Collectives.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1956 Petite Gallerie, Rio, Brazil

Galeria IBEU, Rio, Brazil

1959 Livraria Thomas Jefferson, Rio, Brazil

1962 Galeria Gead, Rio, Brazil

1963 Brazilian Cultural Center, New York, USA

1964 West Nyack Clarksville, New York, USA

1967 Centerville, Delaware, USA

1969 Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, USA

1969 Varanda, Rio, Brazil

1971 Irlandini, Rio, Brazil

1973 IBEU, Rio, Brazil

1976 Mini Gallery, Rio, Brazil

1977 Ranulfo Galleria de Arte, Recife, Brazil

1978 Galleria Academia Internazionale, Roma, Italy

Per la unitá de la Culultura, Roma, Italy

Ranulfo Galeria de arte, São Paulo, Brazil

Ranulfo Galeria de Arte, Recife, Brazil

1981 Galeria Ranulpho, São Paulo, Brazil

1982 Galeria da Ana Maria Niemeyer, Rio, Brazil

1983 Museum of the Vatican, Roma, Italy

Galeria Ranulpho, Recife, Brazil

1984 Galeria Ranulpho, São Paulo, Brazil

1986 'Romantic Art' in De Mattenburg, Bergem op Zoom, Holanda

Galeria da Accademia Internazionale Burckhardt, Roma

1987-Hotel Astória, Hamar, Norway

Galeria Ranulpho, Recife, Brazil

1995 Retrospectiva no Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio, Brazil

1997 D`Hoogpoorte, Gent, Belgium

2005 'The Master of the Mother pearl'

Retrospectiva Galeria da Fesp, Rio, Brazil

2006 'In Search of Beauty' Gallery Man and Nature,

Latem, Belgium

LIST of works of the private collection for sale

Drawings paintings and portraits

Year 2013 work estimated for a museum around these Prices

Sphinx

1990

Oil on pannel

24x19cm ( 10000 € )

Orfeo - Oil on pannel

22 x 16cm ( 10000 € )

Soul- Private collection..

6000 €

(Poster 40x50 cm: 20 €)

Figure with a cape- Private collection

5000 €

Angel- Private collection ...

5000 €

(Poster 40x50cm: 20€)

Isolda child.

5000 €

PRIZES

1948 Honorable prize Washington Outdoor Show, USA

1960 Medalha de Prata Museum de Belas Artes, Rio, Brazil

1962 Segundo prêmio Concurso Formiplac, Rio, Brazil

1964 Acquisition Prize, University of Delaware USA

First prize, Awiza Pond, Bay Shore USA,

Second prize, Cross Country, New York, USA,

Third prize, Forest Hills, New York, USA

1977 Nativitá 77, Medaglia per pitura, Napoli, Italy

Nativitá 77, Primo premio Internazionale

con medaglia Aurea della Respone per disegno;

Membro Academico dela Accademia Internazionale Burckhardt

Suissa 1978 Membro Accademico di Merito

della Accademia dei 'i 500' di Arti,

Lettere, Scienze, Cultura, Roma, Italy,

Premio Campidoglio d'Oro, Pittura, Roma, Italy

Centro Cultura Le Don Minzoni,

Capena Concorso di pittura Sacra,

premio Speciale con Grande Medaglia de 'Il Quadrato'

1979 Nativitá 79, 1 premio, Regione Campania;

Ente provinciale per il Turismo, Roma, Italy

Trofeo Claudio Monteverdi, Roma, Italy

Premio Speciale disegno Il Canacollo Galleria d'Arte, Firenze, Italy,

Galleria Bottega d'Arte S. Ambroeus,

Milano Premio speciale per disegno con Medaglia

Premio fuori Concorso "Santa Croce", Firenze, Italy

OTHER

'Stations of the cross', Igreja de Araruama, Estado do Rio, Brazil, 1962

Dicionario Das Artes Plasticas no Brazil, Roberto Pontual, 1969

Ilustrations of the sonnets of Shakespeare, Nova Fronteira, Rio, 1973

Monografia "Arte figurativa nel mondo" pela Academia per la

Unità della Cultura by Aurelio Thommaso Prete, Roma, Italy

Publication on the art works of ISOLDA Hermes da Fonseca,

Thommaso Prete, Roma, Italy Roma, Italy 1978

Participated with paintings to "A Sucessora' TV Globo, Rio, Brazil, 1978

Illustrations of the life of Saint Francisco of Assisi

Piero Bargellini, translation by Padre Godinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1980

Museum of Vatican (with painting of Santa Cecília), Roma, Italy 1983

Sotherby´s , South American Art New York, USA., 1987

Medalha de ouro no VIII Rio- Bi Exposição Nipo-Brasileira de Artes

given the title of "A MESTRA DA MADREPÉROLA",

('The Master of the Pearlmother') in Rio, Brazil 1991

About Isolda

Written by van Chapman

Known by all for her intelligent and surprising spontaneity, her generosity and joy of living, the great Brazilian Isolda was brave to her last moments on the Earth.

Capable of playing and wanting to uplift those who love her and suffer with her departure of the physical form.

At the age of eighty, after some month of infirmity, she managed to release her body quick and decisively; as it was her way of resolving things in life.

Inspite the immense lack we feel, let us be conscientious that we are nearer to those we love and in whom we think, than to those we are physically close to.

Isolda left her body on the 26 September 2004 in her atelier in Rio

and is following now in heaven her path in search of the true face of the angels.

3 Dec 2006

The name Isolda is perhaps inspired by a heart breaking music of Wagner, on the drama of 'Tristan and Isolda', a passionate prohibited love and a romantic death, similar to Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.

An enthusiastic lover of the Greek ideal, of the Renascence, of Humanism and the great achievements of the human spirit, like Art, Music, Poetry and Science, the great Brazilian painter Isolda makes right to her name, by the lyricism, romanticism, and heroic spirit visible in her work.

But she goes further, in search of the face of the angel, of the Divine, in search of the true love, the source of all beauty.

.-"The face is the great landscape", she used to say.