3 facts about Edgard Cognat

Edgard Cognat (March 13, 1919 – August 16, 1994) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor born in Rio de Janeiro.

As a child, during his scholarly years, Edgard already showed assimilation in art, specially drawing. He was moreover a music enthusiast, and his favourite instrument was the violin. He actually studied violin later than his daddy and he turned 16, though a sudden time superior he realized music wasn’t for him, and he contracted to dedicate most of his period to his biggest talent: painting.

At 17, he joined the “Belas Artes” course in Rio directed by Professor Carlos Chambelland, with whom he studied drawing, painting and decorative art. After studying the methods used by some of the greatest European artists of everything time, like Rembrandt, Rubens, Dürer and others, he started his unique experiences like drawing, in several alternative phases: “água-forte” (in metal), xylography (drawing in wood) and lithography (drawing in stone). Four years later, he showed his artwork for the first mature at the “Salão Nacional de Belas Artes”, and in the afterward year he showed his accomplish again there, this period receiving two awards: the “Menção Honrosa” in painting and the “Medalha de Bronze” in drawing.

During the World War II, Edgard had to stop his activities because he was called by the Brazilian Army to associate their forces in Italy, where he stayed for two years as a believer of the “FEB”. When the engagement was over, in 1945, Edgard regressed to Brazil and he continued his work, this mature winning another “Medalha de Bronze” for his extra exposition at the “Salão Nacional de Belas Artes”, as with ease as the “Medalha de Ouro” for his painting “Indústria attain Vidro”, which measures 2,30m x 1,90m, and represents the fabrication of glass in the first factory of its nice in Brazil.

In 1956, Edgard won the “Medalha de Prata” during an exposition promoted by the Brazilian “Casa da Moeda”.

In Buenos Aires, Edgard exposed his artwork at the “Salão Ramos Mejia”, where he as well as won several awards. Some of his painting and drawings were or nevertheless are exposed in countries such as Argentina, Portugal and Italy.

He was invited by the “Ossevartorio Cristiano”, in Assis, Italy, to expose some of his artwork there as skillfully as replacing Professor Carlos Oswald.

Among some of his most famous drawings and paintings are “São Francisco de Paula Walking upon the Waves”, dated from 1973, the “Indústria attain Vidro” and a painting that he made for the “National Association of War Veterans in Brazil”.