Project Description
Watercolor
Dimensional view : 17 cm x 20 cm
Lagoons of the Ria de Aveiro - City of Murtosa - Portugal
unsigned watercolor 1964 After a travel book and from the daughter of Louis-Charles Aubree
Lagoons of the Ria de Aveiro myrtle
with a boat (named Moliceiro) background.
Louis Aubree (1906 – 1991)
Is a painter. Pupil of Charles Fouqueray, it exposes the French artists between 1930 and 1942 Parisian landscapes, views of Pressburg and the Slovak houses.
Sources : E.Benezit - Dictionary of Painters, sculptors, designers and engravers.
myrtle.
Emigration has particularly marked the county from Murtosa, town of about 10.000 current inhabitants, in the central region of Portugal, in the district of Aveiro. Internal emigration matters (to Lisbon or Porto), but especially external, the myrtlemen particularly directed towards the United States, including Newark, New Jersey, twinned with Murtosa since 2001. This migration story is, for years 1980, taken in hand by the municipality which wishes to pay tribute to these emigrants, “examples of tenacity and sacrifice, who knew how to succeed in the countries of arrival, always with an eye on their country of origin, myrtle, where year after year, they came back, often in summer, to lessen their nostalgia”.
Murtosa Emigrant Festival
It is organized every year at the end of July / early August and for several days various activities pay tribute to emigrants through festive events, political or religious. Valuing emigration myrtle tree is approached from two main angles : on the one hand, the celebration of the migratory phenomenon and the homage paid to myrtlemen concerned, on the other hand, the promotion of the region in a tourism and development perspective through multi-sited “emissaries”. The events of the party vary the focus between the parish from Murtosa, the county and the Ria de Aveiro region, by presenting specificities at each geographical scale.