Genaro De Carvalho Brazil, 1926-1971

Genaro De Carvalho was a Brazilian artist who is considered the father of modern tapestry in Brazil.

Born in 1926 in the state capital of Bahia, Salvador, Genaro was encouraged from his very young age to pursue an artistic career by his father who was a self-taught painter.

He participated in his first exhibition at the age of 17 and had his own solo show two years later. Having studied drawing in Rio Janeiro, he began developing painting as a healing response to his fragile condition.

In 1949, Genaro went to France thanks to a scholarship and studied at the Ecole

Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During this year he traveled around Europe and especially in Italy confronted himself to art classics. He also became a contributor to a newspaper from Salvador, for which he wrote weekly art reviews.

Back in Brazil in 1950, he was commissioned to create the decoration of the Hotel da Bahia, including «Festas Regionais» , a 44m wide fresco in the ground floor of the restaurant, still visible in the now called Wish Hotel da Bahia.

Suffering from a fragile health, Genaro De Carvalho passed away in 1971, after a rather short but prolific career.