Augusto Rodrigues Da Costa

Born on March 2nd, 1933 in Satao (Viseu, Portugal). Its youth in Angola passes where his father exploits a planting of coffee. Birth of its artistic vocation. First exhibition in Luanda at 22 years. A grant allows him to come to Lisbon to study at the College of higher education of Nice Arts. Professor of painting and drawing at the School of Decorative arts Antonio Arroio.
Grant holder of Foundation Gulbenkian.
His thesis on "Problems of space" in 1966 supports. A grant of studies of International Institute of Education, New York gets in 1967.
Visit schools and arts centres - Contacts with the most known artists - Does the courses of Psychology of Art of the professor Rudolf Arnheim in Columbia University, New York - Does A summer course in Parsons School of Design of New York - Stay in Canada - Return to the United States as "Guest Artist" of the Stout State University - Wiscontin - where he is invited to give lessons of painting and drawings - Accomplishes a sculpture with his students for the library and a wall panel for the Faculty of the Sciences of this university - Conference on "art and nature" for Undergraduate Students.
On the way back, in 1969, settles in France, to Amiens - Enlisted man for season as assisting interior decorator of Ballet - Contemporary Theatre, then installed in the new Home of Culture. The Direction of the Cultural affairs of Sum orders it a sculpture and wall painting for 4 schools of the department. Charged with the lesson of plastic arts to the University of Picardy - Teacher in the Art school. It will be until 1998 Responsible exhibitions at home for the Culture (Maison de la Culture) of Amiens. He comes back then to Portugal where he dies on July 29th, 2013. More than 2000 painting, watercolours, lacquers, drawings are kept and photographed.

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