Guilherme Augusto Cau da Costa de Santa Rita or, as he would later be known, Santa-Rita Pintor, was born in Lisbon, (1889) and died on the 29th April 1918 (29 years)) was a Portuguese painter and writer, having introduced the Futurism in Portugal.
In 1910 he received a scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, a position he lost due to his monarchical ideas and tuff relations with the ambassador of Portugal João Chagas. Back in Lisbon in 1914, he plans to publish in Portuguese the Futurist Manifesto of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, a task he turned out never achieving, despite the author's permission.
He appears as a character in the novel by Mário de Sá Carneiro "Lucio's Confession," 1914.
In 1915, he published four drawings on the second (and last) edition of the Journal Orpheu:
Head 1910.
Only two of this printed paintings survived, all others were destroyed, according to his wishes, by his family after his death. They are, Orpheus in the Underworld (1907) which belongs to a private collector, there are no known reproductions) and Head.
In 1915, he organized a great number of meetings of young artists and writers in protest against the apathy of the older generation. In conflict with the group of Orpheu magazine, he published his own magazine Futurist Portugal, only one number came out, at the end of 1917, containing reproductions of four of his paintings.
He died in 1918, (Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso died the same year), marking the end of the first phase of Portuguese modernism.
In 1915, he organized a great number of meetings of young artists and writers in protest against the apathy of the older generation. In conflict with the group of Orpheu magazine, he published his own magazine Futurist Portugal, only one number came out, at the end of 1917, containing reproductions of four of his paintings.
He died in 1918, (Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso died the same year), marking the end of the first phase of Portuguese modernism.
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