Pintura de camilo egas biography

Ecuadorian master painter and teacher

Camilo Egas (1889-September 18, 1962) was an Ecuadorian master painter and teacher, who was also active in the United States and Europe.^[1] Egas was married in Paris 1927 to dancer and artist Margarita Gibbons.

Camilo Egas museum in Quito illustrates a self portrait of the artist of 1946 that is on the cover of a pamphlet published by them then used for a book Jan 2003 edition by del Banco central del Ecuador.

Pintura de camilo egas biography

Early life and education

Camilo Alejandro Egas Silva was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1889 and grew up in the San Blas neighborhood in the province of Pichincha to parents Camilo Egas Caldas, a professor, and Maria Zoila Silva Larrea, a homemaker.^[2] He began his primary education in 1895 at the Christian school named El Cebollar de Los Hermanos Cristianos.

From an early age, he displayed a natural talent for the arts, spending his free time drawing in his father's journals. He next studied at the