Margarita Bertheau
Margarita Bertheau Odio (born in San José, Costa Rica on 13 May 1913; died in Escazú (canton) on 21 November 1975) was a Costa Rican painter and cultural promoter.[1][2] The Costa Rican Art Museum states she is said to be known for "landscapes, portraits, watercolor figures, and her geometric, surrealistic and abstract work."[3] She has been called the first female Watercolor painting artist of her country.[4] She had independent views and was contemporary with the first wave of Costa Rican artists that included Dinora Bolandi, Lola Fernandez and . These four are said to have taught fine art at the University of Costa Rica and to have created the second generation of Costa Rican women artists.[5]
She worked with Francisco Amighetti on a mural called Agriculture . The mural was for the presidential palace and has been called both pastoral and shocking as it shows the peasants farming but in the distance others run as a person is shot.[6]
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- ^ (in Spanish)Museo Virtual de la Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social
- ^ (in Spanish)Article on Margarita Bertheau Odio in La Nación
- ^ Costa Rican Art Museum as quoted by the Costa Rica Tourism Board
- ^ Chalene Helmuth (2000). Culture and Customs of Costa Rica. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-313-30492-7.
- ^ Ilse Abshagen Leitinger (April 1994). The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader. University of Pittsburgh Pre. pp. 249–. ISBN 978-0-8229-7162-7.
- ^ "Exhibit chronicles evolution of Costa Rican art - The Tico Times". www.ticotimes.net. Retrieved 2017-09-25.
- 20th-century Costa Rican painters
- Costa Rican women artists
- People from San José, Costa Rica
- Women watercolorists
- 1913 births
- 1975 deaths
- University of Costa Rica faculty
- 20th-century women artists