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Plá, Josefina


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  • Fuller Name

    • María Josefina Plá Guerra Galvani

  • Variants

    • Plá Guerra Galvani, María Josefina
    • Guerra Galvani, María Josefina Plá
    • Galvani, María Josefina Plá Guerra

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1903-11-9

    • Death Date

        1999-01-11

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation Start: 1953
        • Organization: Grupo Arte Nuevo (Paraguay)

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Escuela Municipal de Arte Escénico (Paraguay)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Centro Arte Nuevo (Paraguay)

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Museo Julián de la Herrería

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (Paraguay)

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas

    • Has Affiliation

        • Organization: Academia Hispanoamericana Rubén Darío

    • Birth Place

        Canary Islands

    • Associated Locale

        Asunción (Paraguay)

    • Associated Language

        Spanish

    • Occupation

      Journalist

      Novelist

      Poet

      Art critic

      Playwright

      Historian

      Ceramicist

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  • Sources

    • found: Her La raíz y la aurora, 1960
    • found: Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1909)
    • found: Portal Guarani website, May 18, 2020:(Josefina Plá; María Josefina Plá Guerra Galvany; born November, 9, 1903; died January 11, 1999) - http://www.portalguarani.com/519_josefina_pla.html
    • found: Agencia de Información Paraguaya website, May 18, 2020:posted January 10, 2020 (Josefina Plá; born 1903 in Fuenteventura, Canary Islands, Spain; came to Paraguay as a young woman after marrying the ceramicist and painter Julián de la Herrería (Andrés Campos Cervera) and later became a widow; founded the Grupo Arte Nuevo in 1953 with Olga Blinder, Lilí del Mónico y José Laterza Parodi that supported the renewal of Paraguay art in academic post-impressionism; studied ceramics with her husband and later held her own exhibitions; professor who was the director of ceramic classes at the Centro Cultural Paraguayo-Americano (1946-1952); used the pseudonym Abel de la Cruz; journalist; novelist; poet; art critic; playwright; historian; author of Julián de la Herrería (Ed. Alcor, Asunción, 1962), El barroco hispano-guaraní (Sobretiro, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Madrid 1964), El grabado en la Misiones (Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Madrid, 1965), Las artes plásticas paraguayas (Sobretiro de Anales del Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas, Buenos Aires, 1966), Las artesanías en el Paraguay (Ed. Librería Comuneros, Asunción, 1970), Historia y catálogo del Museo de Bellas Artes (Asunción 1970), La cerámica popular paraguaya (1976), El paisaje en la pintura paraguaya (Asunción 1985), and Aproximación a la imaginería popular paraguaya (Asunción, 1986); author of the chapter on Paraguay in the Enciclopedia del arte de América) - https://www.ip.gov.py/ip/conversatorio-sobre-la-vida-y-obra-de-josefina-pla-este-sabado/
    • found: Gobierno de Canarias, Consejería de Educación, Universidades, Cultura y Deportes website, May 18, 2020:(Josefina Plá; born 1903 in Isla de Lobos; when she was three her family moved to penisular Spain where she spent her childhood and teenage years; moved to Paraguay with her husband, the Pargauayan artist Andrés Campo Cervera in 1927; the Universidad Nacional de Asunción gave her an honorary doctorate; one of the founders of the Escuela Municipal de Arte Escénico, the Centro Arte Nuevo, and the Museo Julián de la Herrería; miembro de número of the Academia Paraguaya de la Lengua Española and the Academia Paraguaya de la Historia; member of the PEN Club Paraguayo and the Instituto de Cultura Hispánica; miembro de honor of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE), the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, and the Academia Hispanoamericana Rubén Darío; died 1999 in Paraguay; author of several works including La raíz y la aurora (1960)) - http://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/ecoescuela/escritorascanarias/?p=208
    • found: Real Academia de la Historia (Spain) website, May 18, 2020:(Josefina Plá; María Josefina Plá Guerra Galvani; born November, 9, 1903 in Isla de Lobos, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas; died January 11, 1999 in Asunción, Paraguay; author; artist; critic; journalist; when she was three her family moved to penisular Spain where she spent her childhood and teenage years; moved to Paraguay with her husband, the Pargauayan artist Andrés Campo Cervera in 1927; author of several works including La raíz y la aurora (1960)) - http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/17712/maria-josefina-pla-guerra-galvani
    • found: Última Hora website, May 18, 2020:posted January 10, 2020 (Josefina Plá; born 1903; died 1999; author of several works including Las artes plásticas paraguayas) - https://www.ultimahora.com/rendiran-homenaje-josefina-pla-n2864150.html

  • LC Classification

    • PQ8259.P53

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  • Change Notes

    • 1980-07-09: new
    • 2023-08-29: revised

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