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Self- Portrait 1934 Oil on Canvas 98 x 76 cm
1917
Maria Genoveva Brandt is born in Caracas.
1927 At
ten she writes poems in school copybooks and illustrates them with great
ability.
1932
Federico Brandt her father dies at 54 on the July 25th.
1936-37 Travels to Chile.
1939-43 Studies at the School of
Plastic and Applied Arts of Caracas. Directed by
Antonio Edmundo Monsanto.
1940
Protests against the teaching methods of the Art School with Alejandro
Otero, Carlos Cruz Diez, Virgilio Trompiz, Pascual Navarro, Mateo Manaure y
Reina Herrera. Eventualy has to sign a document to keep the discipline and
accept the plan of study.
1941
Participates with the work Calas oil on Canvas as a student in the II
Official Annual Venezuelan Art Show at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas.
Receives an Honor Mention Award.
1942 Participates with the work
Flores, oil on Canvas in the III Official Annual Venezuelan Art Show at
the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas. Receives an Honor Mention Award.
1943 IV Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show. at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas with the work Flores,
Paisaje de San Bernardino, Traje Negro y la Cartera oil on canvas. Meets Manuel Villanueva the
writer and marries him. Travels to Lima Peru where he is Director of the Press
Office of the Venezuelan Embassy in Peru. Illustrates the book of poems
Canto en la Guerra by Manuel Villanueva published this year.
1944 V Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas with three Oils Flores Cabeza and Naturaleza Muerta. Meets the Peruvian Artist
Fernando de Szyzslo. Mariadela her first Child is
born in Lima.
1945 Returns to Caracas. VI Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show. at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas with three Oils Paisaje Peruano Flores y Patio.
1946 Travels to Italy and settles in
Rome with her family. Her husband became the first secretary to the Venezuelan
Embassy in Rome. Becomes friend of Ana Salvatore an Italian artist who
participated in shows of Italian realistic art and influence Mary’s work of the
time. VII Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas. with four Oils Gallos ,Rosas
and two portraits.
1947 First Individual Show at the
Currazzi Gallery in Rome. Her son Federico is born in
Rome.
1949 Visits the show of Kasmir
Malevich in Rome and gets very interested in Abstraction.
1950 Returns to Venezuela. Family group show with her
father Federico Brandt and sister Julia at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas.
1951 Travels to Geneva. Switzerland. XII Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas. with
three Oils. Naturaleza Muerta, Composicion y Naturaleza Muerta. Gets the
Jose Loreto Arismendi Award.
1952 Returns to Venezuela. Lives in
Caracas and travels on short trips to Europe.
1953 XIV Official Annual Venezuelan
Art Show at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas. With three Oils Composiciones.
1954 Her daughter Ana Isabel,
(Ani Villanueva) is born in Caracas.
1957 Individual Show at the Sala
Mendoza in Caracas 17 paintings titled Composicion and 9 drawings of
animals. She kept her figurative expression in her drawings parallel to her
research and transformation in her paintings. Her son Carlos Manuel is born in
Caracas.
1958 First Christmas Art Fair in the
Museum of Fine Arts MBA Caracas. Small and Valuable Formats in
Venezuelan Art show at the Sala Mendoza Caracas.
1960 Living Spaces Show Palacio
Municipal Maracaibo. First informalist show in Venezuela. 1960 Experimental Show. Sala
Mendoza Caracas.
1961 Venezuelan Painting 1661-1961.
Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas.
1962 Learns pottery at Maria Luisa
Tovar’s workshop in Caracas.
1963 Individual Show of 26 numbered
and untitled paintings. Museum of Fine Arts. MBA Caracas.
1963-64 Studies Engraving on Metal at
Elisa Elvira Zuloaga’s workshop.
1965 Teaches painting in her studio Miguel Otero Silva’s collection
show. At the Fine Arts Museum. MBA Caracas the two paintings of hers were
donated to the National Gallery Collection GAN and to the Museum of
Anzoategui.
1966 One of her
paintings becomes part of the collection of The Stedelijk Museum of
Amsterdam. Holland.
1967 Individual show of 33 drawings
at the Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas. Hedendaagse Graftishe Kunst in
Venezuela group show in the Venezuelan Embassy in Holland.
1968 Venezuelan Engraving Annual
Show. Sala Mendoza Caracas.
1970 Collaborates and participates in
Diego Barbosa’s Performance 30 girls in nets. Trafalgar Square London.
1971Individual show Mary Brandt
Drawings to Read. Estudio Actual Gallery Caracas.Moves to Amsterdam Holland with
her husband and family.
1972 Individual Show Objetos
Inutiles/Useless Objects 30 paintings made between 1970/72 Sala Mendoza
Caracas.
Group Show Venezuelan Abstract
Art .Midland Group Gallery. Nottingham England.
1973 Moves to Budapest Hungary with her husband and family.
1975 Individual Show 46 drawings .Sala
Mendoza. Caracas. Group Show The Venezuelan Women
in Art organized by United Nations and the Central Bank of Venezuela. Central
Bank Gallery . Caracas.
1976 Returns from Hungary and lives
in Caracas. Co- Founder of the TAGA.
Workshop of Associated Graphic Artists in Caracas.
1977 Group Show Drawings and
Watercolours. Sala Mendoza Caracas.Individual Show Telas
Rabiosas/Angry Canvases . 30 Paintings . Sala Mendoza Caracas.
1978 Group Show Bolivar Nueva Imagen.
National Museum of Bogota. Colombia.
1979 Teaches Drawing and Composition
at Neuman Institute of Design. Caracas.
1981 Invited to the First National
Biennial of Visual Arts. Fine Arts Museum MBA Caracas
1982 Individual Show Ventanas al
Tiempo/ Windows to Time .Sala Mendoza. Caracas. Collaborates in her
daughter’s(Ani Villanueva) performance Cuadro Movil/ Mobile Painting.
Sala Mendoza Caracas.
1984 Individual Show Mary Brandt 1984 Paintings and
Drawings. Contemporay Art Museum . MACSI Caracas.
1985 Dies in Caracas on December 16th
at 68.
1990 An edition of engravings is
printed at the Taga under the supervision of Luisa Palacios. Individual Show Drawings and
Paintings of Mary Brandt. Sala Mendoza Caracas.
1995 Individual Show Mary Brandt Pinturas Dibujos y
Grabados. National Gallery. GAN Caracas.
2000 Group Show Los Brandt. Galeria de la Fundacion Banco
Provincial Caracas
2005 Group Show El Informalismo. Galeria 8.000 Caracas
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