Description
We are located just below the town of Vallico Sotto, to be precise in Porche, a place surrounded by the tranquility of the fields and chestnut forests overlooking the beautiful Turrite Valley. It is here that we find the house chosen by the famous Brazilian artist Ernesto Frederico Scheffel to spend his old age.
Ernesto Frederico Scheffel, born in Brazil on October 8, 1927 and died in Porto Alegre on July 16, 2015, was a painter, restorer and composer.
Descended from German migrants, at the age of eight he received his first notions of oil painting on wood in Hamburgo.
In 1958 he won the foreign travel award and in 1959 he went to Florence, from there the painter divided his time between Latin America and Italy and it was during this period that he matured his style and enriched his artistic journey.
In 1996 he decided to buy a house in Italy, in Tuscany in the municipality of Fabbriche di Vergemoli in the town of Vallico Sotto.
In the last period of his life, he produced the book "Scheffel for Himself," an autobiography detailing his cultural and artistic journey and where he highlights his stylistic influences learned through trips between Brazil and Italy .
In his works we can perceive different currents: Realism, Symbolism and Romanticism; Scheffel, in doing so, managed to fuse all of these together, succeeding in creating his own contemporary stylistic and artistic path.
In addition to the graphic style, the artist wanted to convey the psychological, social and individual realities perceived in the different cultural contexts in which he himself appeared and in which he lived his daily life.
His work and artworks are the result of a careful inner analysis, and in his creations one can perceive this social quest that the artist was constantly searching for.
The community of Vallico Sotto welcomed the author with great affection and today the Municipality of Fabbriche di Vergemoli is proud to share the cultural heritage that Scheffel left to our territory.
