Painter, sculptor and restorer, Luis Ouvrard began his training first with Fernando Gaspary, and after with Eugenio Fornells at the Popular Athenaeum. But because his training period with both teachers was so brief, he always viewed himself as a self-taught artist. His first exhibition was at the Sal\u00f3n Nacional in 1918, and ever since he exhibited his works in national and municipal salons. He was very young when he began working at a religious icons workshop that belonged to Germano Parpagnoli and Emilio S\u00e1nchez Saez. Soon after, he opened a sculpture workshop with his brother Camilo, who was also a draftsman and a sculptor. In the beginning, the brothers made religious pieces, but later they started making terracotta and plaster dolls, and also doll restoration. His wife Esther, whom he married in 1928, helped them with the doll work. He also restored paintings. Indeed, for a certain period, he was the only restorer in the city of Rosario. His skills as a restorer were much appreciated by his clients, among whom were renowned artist.
He was an important participant in the artistic and bohemian circles of his time, as well as in trade union activity in Rosario. In 1914 he joined a group of artists known as Gente Menuda, including M\u00e1ximo Medina, Manuel Zamora, Melfi, Palau, and the S\u00e1nchez Saez brothers. Luis Ouvrard, like artist Antonio Berni, had won a scholarship from the aristocratic Jockey Club to travel to Europe, a trip he could not make because his mother was ill and for financial reasons. He nevertheless
maintained correspondence with Antonio Berni. Ouvrard and Berni\u2019s families were neighbors; their mothers would sit and chat in Ouvrards\u2019 back yard. In 1925 the Nexus group was formed having Guido, Manuel Musto, Demetrio Antoniadis, Jos\u00e9 Fantin, Manuel Ferrer Dodero, Antonio Daniel Palau, Nicol\u00e1s Melfi, Eduardo Barnes, Lucio Fontana, Antonio Berni, Emilio S\u00e1nchez S\u00e1ez, Augusto Schiavoni, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00edn Torrej\u00f3n and Luis Ouvrard as founding members. After winning the second medal at the Rosario Salon in 1925, he took part in the First Artists\u2019 Salon of Rosario in 1926, which had been organized by the Nexus group. He won a prize for his Portrait; Manuel Musto and Antonio Berni also won prizes. In addiCon, Ouvrard parCcipated in the Refugio Visual ArCsts\u2019 AssociaCon , formed in 1932, with many other artists. In 1936 he joined the \u201c9 Artists\u201d Association with Augusto Schiavoni, Jos\u00e9 Beltramino, F\u00e9lix Pascual, Eugenio Fornells and Demetrio Antoniadis, among others. In 1941 he participated in the formation of the Provincial School of Fine Arts with Nicol\u00e1s Melfi, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Hern\u00e1ndez, F\u00e9lix Pascual, Manuel Ferrer Dodero, Oscar Herrero Miranda and C\u00e9sar Caggiano. Since then and until 1955, Luis Ouvrard taught the course of \u201cColors\u201d. The school operated until 1979 in the building located on n. 474 San Martin Street in Rosario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1942 he joined the Independent Visual Artists Association, with Nicol\u00e1s Antonio de San Luis, the Paino brothers, Anselmo Piccoli, Le\u00f3nidas Gambartes, Juan Grela and Julio Vanzo. He won the Cecilia Griergson\u2019s prize of the National Salon of that year. In 1969, after 51 years working as a painter, he had his first solo exhibition at the Renom Gallery in Rosario. It was sponsored by the artist Gustavo Cochet and the art collector Isidoro Slullitel.
In 1980 the Castagnino Museum held a retrospective exhibition of Ouvrard\u2019s work. In 1981 the Municipal Museum of the Visual Arts “Sor Josefa D\u00edaz y Clucellas” of the City of Santa Fe set a solo exhibition. In his life, he participated of numberless collective shows in the cities of Rosario, Santa Fe, C\u00f3rdoba and Salta. The Krass Gallery dedicated several solo exhibitons of his works. His works are present in the collections of the Castagnino+macro Museum and the Provincial \u201cRosa Galisteo de Rodr\u00edguez\u201d of the Fine Arts. In 2016, Castagnino+macro Museum organized the anthological exhibition La llave de los sue\u00f1os. Luis Ouvrard. Obra reunida (The key to dreams \u2013 Luis Ouvrard, Assembled works), which brought together 130 of the painter\u2019s works, including works inherited by his family, those in the Museum\u2019s collection, as well as works owned by collectors, including pastels, oil paintings, drawings and engravings. In 2016 the book \u201cOuvrard. Pain6ngs and Drawings 1916-1986\u201d was published by Editorial Municipal de Rosario-Ivan Rosado Publishers. In March 2023 Calvaresi Gallery presented more than 30 works by the painter in an exhibi6on called \u201cOn the road – Luis Ouvrard\u201d, most of which are owned by the Gallery and some belong to private collectors. Most of these works were not exhibited in the 1980s retrospective of the Castagnino Museum nor in the Anthological exhibition of 2016. Simultaneously, the Editorial Ivan Rosado Publishers \u2013 represented by Maximiliano Masuelli and Ana Wandzik \u2013 also organized a show dedicated to the artist which included works in the Ouvrard family\u2019s and of the Masuelli- Wandzik\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3647,"template":"","tags":[212,308,306,314,316],"class_list":["post-3650","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1970-1980-en","tag-paisaje-en","tag-naturaleza-en","tag-pintura-en","tag-poesia-visual-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}