David Mourão Ferreira Escultura

David Mourão-Ferreira was born in Lisbon on February 24, 1927 and died in the same city on June 16, 1996. Son of David Ferreira collaborator of Seara Nova and secretary of the director of the National Library, Jaime Cortesão. He attended Colégio Moderno and graduated in 1951, at the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon, in Romanesque Philology. There are striking influences on his poetry, the attendants (he coexists daily with José Régio in Portalegre where David Mourão-Ferreira went to do military service) and French authors like Paul Valery and Proust. He publishes his first poems in Seara Nova and joins the MUD Juvenil, a movement of resistance to the Salazar dictatorship. In 1950, he published his first book of poetry Secreta Viagem. A multifaceted author, he also writes theater - he even takes the stage as an actor, literary critic, fiction and fado for Amália Rodrigues. He was also a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon and had extensive collaboration in journalism. He served as Secretary of State for Culture, directed the Colloquium / Letters Magazine and was Director of the Itinerant Libraries Service at Calouste Gulbenkian. He passed away in 1996. Sculptural reading Sculpture Brazilian marble (relationship with Brazil) Holds head / face - humanist, classical culture Poetic reading 3 Small sculptures inside Life, death, poetry Sculptor Francisco Simões