Julio Escámez

[3] He also designed scenography and made costumes for various ballet works, and had an outstanding career as a book illustrator from diverse writers, including the poet Pablo Neruda, whom he met personally.

[6] Between 1955 and 1957 he went to study with a scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy,[6] the mural technique of fresco, especially the painting of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries by Giotto and Piero della Francesca.

[1] In addition, he also studied at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow,[6] and during these years he was invited to Russia, China, Japan and India, countries where he exhibited his works.

[1] Once back in Chile, after the 1973 coup d'état that initiated the military dictatorship, the painter fled into self-exile, settling in San José, capital of Costa Rica.

The work of Julio Escámez belongs to the current of realism with a strong social content, dealing with themes of popular everyday life and the American landscape.

Detail of the mural Historia de Concepción by Gregorio de la Fuente , in which Escámez collaborated during its creation, between 1943 and 1946.
Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf , Germany.
After the 1973 coup d'état in Chile , Escámez went into exile in Costa Rica and part of his work was lost. In the photograph, the bombing of the Palacio de La Moneda .
Mural Historia de la medicina y la farmacia en Chile (1957-1958), an example of social realism in the work of Julio Escámez.