MARIANO BERTUCHI NIETO (Granada, 1884 - Tetuan, 1955). "Jewish quarter of the city of Tetuan". Oil on canvas. Signed and located in the lower right co

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  MARIANO BERTUCHI NIETO (Granada, 1884 - Tetuan, 1955). "Jewish quarter of the city of Tetuan". Oil on canvas. Signed and located in the lower right corner. With label on the back of the Patronato Nacional del Turismo. Regional Art Exhibition of Granada, 1929. Measurements: 80 x 60 cm 100 x 81 cm (frame). Known as "The great painter of the Protectorate" or "The painter of Morocco", Mariano Bertuchi moved definitively to the city of Tetuan in 1928, when he was appointed chief inspector of the Fine Arts Services of the Protectorate. Attracted by Moroccan culture, he made his home there until the end of his days, producing a varied and abundant artistic output. Stylistically, Bertuchi was part of the line of Spanish painters initiated by Mariano Fortuny and later followed by José Tapiró, far removed from the clichés of Orientalism so fashionable at the time, determined by English travellers who focused their production on immortalising odalisques, harems and slave markets. Based on a new conception of Orientalism, Bertuchi depicted the real Morocco, full of light and without prejudice, nothing more and nothing less than what he saw, the real Orient in all its daily dimensions. On this occasion, Bertuchi gives us a view of the Jewish quarter or mellah of Tetouan, where the Jews who were expelled from Spain settled. In it, the brushstroke acquires impressionistic ease, focusing not so much on the depiction of types and customs as on the faithful reflection of the atmosphere of the place and the very identity of the North African population. Bertuchi trained in Granada, as a disciple of García Guerra and de Larrocha, and later entered the School of Fine Arts. In 1895, at the age of eleven, he took part in an exhibition for the first time and two years later won the first prize of his career. In 1899, at the age of fifteen and after his first trip to North Africa, Bertuchi presented three works in Granada and then moved to Madrid to continue his studies. That same year he presented his work in Madrid at the Biennial of the Círculo de Bellas Artes. From the beginning of the century Bertuchi took part in exhibitions at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and also showed his work in Granada. In 1903, at the age of nineteen, he became a graphic reporter of the Moroccan Civil War, producing ten oil paintings on cardboard which were published in "La Ilustración Española y Americana". In 1908 he returned to Malaga to produce a series of paintings on military themes. Shortly afterwards he went to Melilla, then besieged by the Sultan's imperial troops, to make a series of sketches of their camp. In 1911 he settled in San Roque, Cadiz, and two years later, before the Spanish troops entered Tetouan, he made sketches for his painting "Entry of H.I.H. the Khalifa Muley-el Medhi into Tetouan". In 1918 Bertuchi settled in Ceuta, and from his early years there he made advertisements for the Ceuta-Tetuan Railway, a collaboration that would last for twenty years. It was also in Ceuta that he designed the sketches for the stained-glass window of the main staircase of the Town Hall, and painted a general view of Ceuta which is to be found in the former mayor's office. In 1921 he painted a triptych dedicated to Commerce, Agriculture and Industry for the Casino Africano in the same city, and the following year he took part in the decoration of the Municipal Palace, executing the paintings of the Royal Sites that adorn the Throne Room. After several years in Ceuta, he finally settled in Tetuan in 1928, where he was appointed Inspector of the Fine Arts and Crafts Services of the Moroccan protectorate. By then he was already a member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He was also director of the Schools of Arts and Crafts in Tetuan and Targuist, as well as the Moroccan Ethnographic Museum. In 1935 he received the Order of Alfonso X the Wise. Mariano Bertuchi is currently represented. With label on the back of the Patronato Nacional del Turismo. Regional Art Exhibition of Granada, 1929.
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