Norah Borges
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| Born |
Leonor Fanny Borges Acevedo 4 March 1901 Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Died | July 20, 1998 (aged 97) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
Leonor Fanny Borges Acevedo (4 March 1901 – 20 July 1998), better known by the pseudonym Norah Borges, was a visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
She was the daughter of Jorge Guillermo Borges and Leonor Acevedo Suárez. Leonor was given the name Norah by her older brother, Jorge Luis Borges. Of his sister, Jorge wrote:
In all of our games she was always el caudillo, I the slow, timid, submissive one. She climbed to the top of the roof, traipsed through the trees, and I followed along with more fear than enthusiasm. —Jorge Luis Borges, Norah
As a child, she moved with her family to Switzerland to treat the progressive blindness of her father, lawyer Jorge Guillermo Borges. She studied with the classical sculptor Maurice Sarkisoff at the École des Beaux-Arts of Geneva. In Lugano she studied with Arnaldo Bossi and was close to German expressionists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. With Bossi, Borges learned the art of woodcutting and the aesthetics of expressionism.
In Switzerland, Borges wrote and illustrated her first poetry book, Notas lejanas (1915). After the publication, Borges and her family hoped to return to Argentina, but their stay in Europe was extended 4 years because of the First World War. During this time, Borges saw much of Europe. First, she visited Provence (Borges was deeply impressed by Nîmes, and dedicated some of her later work to her travels there). After traveling through Province, she moved to Spain, where she furthered her studies and participated in the Avant-Garde movement. In Spain, Borges first visited Barcelona, and then, in 1919, moved to Palma, Majorca. In Palma, she studied under Sven Westman and collaborated with her brother on the magazine Baleares.
Next she visited Sevilla, where she became a part of the vanguard of Ultraísmo, published her work in magazines like Grecia, Ultra, Tableros y Reflector, and in 1920 she illustrated the cover of El jardin de centauro (The Garden of the Centaur), a book of poems by Adriano del Valle. After leaving Sevilla, she passed through Granada and then finally came to Madrid, where she studied with the painter Julio Romero de Torres. Here she befriended the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. She illustrated a number of his books and dedicated a portrait to him in her book Españoles de tres mundos.
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