Henrique Alvim Corrêa

Henrique Alvim Corrêa (30 January 1876 – 7 July 1910) was a Brazilian illustrator of military and science fiction books. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, and died in Brussels. He is best known for his illustrations of a French translation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds.

Biography

Early life and education Henrique Alvim Corrêa was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 30 January 1876, the son of a prominent lawyer who died prematurely in 1883 and of the Baroness de Oliveira Castro. He went to live in Europe in 1892 at the age of sixteen, shortly after the proclamation of the Republic in Brazil, taken in by his stepfather, José Mendes de Oliveira Castro, the royalist Baron of Oliveira Castro.

He first arrived in Lisbon in 1892 and then in Paris in 1894 to study art under the painter Édouard Detaille. curated by Jane de Almeida at the Casanova Gallery in São Paulo. In 1985, several of his engravings depicting nude and/or abused women were included in the book Baco e Anas brasileira, by the Goiás poet Yêda Schmaltz.

Exhibitions 1972: São Paulo. Museu de Arte "Assis Chateaubriand" (MASP). 1973: Rio de Janeiro. Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) 2001: Lisbon, Fondation Gulbenkian, "Século 20 Arte do Brasil". 2004–2007: Seattle, Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (SFM). 2008–2009: Frankfurt, Darwin - Art and the Search for Origins. 2016: São Paulo, Casanova Art Space, "Ulla, Ulla, Ulla, Ulla! Martians, Aliens, Intergalactics and Humans"