{{short description|Chilean painter and professor (1875–1964)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Family name hatnote|Burchard|Eggeling|lang=Chilean}} {{Infobox artist | name = Pablo Burchard | image = Pablo Buchard.JPG | caption = Burchard in 1941 | birth_name = Pedro Pablo Burchard Eggeling | birth_date = 4 November 1875 | birth_place = Santiago, Chile | death_date = 13 July 1964 | death_place = Santiago, Chile | education = University of Chile <br/> Academy of Painting | occupation = {{hlist|Painter|professor}} | spouse = {{marriage|Julia Aguayo Trujillo|1917}} | awards = National Prize of Art of Chile, 1944 | module = {{Infobox academic | embed = yes | workplaces = Arts Faculty, University of Chile | notable_students = {{collapsible list | title={{nobold|''See list''}} | Herminia Arrate, | Ximena Cristi | Irene Domínguez | Sergio Montecino | Carlos Pedraza Olguín | Aída Poblete | Inés Puyó | Reinaldo Villaseñor }} }} }} '''Pedro Pablo Burchard Eggeling''' (November 4, 1875 – July 13, 1964) was a Chilean painter and professor at the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.<ref name="AVC">{{cite web |title=Pablo Burchard |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-39904.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref name="ULAN">{{cite web |title=Burchard, Pablo (Chilean painter and teacher, 1875-1964) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500034809 |website=Union List of Artists Names Online |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Los Angeles, California}}</ref><ref name="González-Vera"/><ref name="Zamorano Pérez"/> Awarded the inaugural National Prize of Art of Chile in 1944, Buchard's paintings focused on nature, the essence of painting and the representation of the everyday and simple objects.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Zamorano Pérez"/><ref name="Memoria"/>
==Early life and education== Burchard was born on 4 November 1875 in Santiago to {{ill|Teodoro Burchard|es}}, a German architect, and María Luisa Eggeling Metzger.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Marriage"/><ref name="González-Vera">{{cite journal |last1=González-Vera |first1=Francisco |title=Los biografemas de Pablo Burchard : elucidación y demarcación pictórica |journal=Chile 100 años artes visuales: primer período 1900–1950. Modelo y representación [catalogue] |date=2000 |url=https://icaa.mfah.org/s/en/item/773704#?c=&m=&s=&cv=1&xywh=-836%2C-236%2C3237%2C2359 |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref> Burchard was one of fifteen children.<ref name="González-Vera"/>
Initially studying architecture at the University of Chile, Burchard later studied at the Academy of Painting under Cosme San Martín, Pedro Lira and Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Zaragoza.<ref name="AVC"/>
==Career== In 1903, Burchard worked as a teacher at secondary school in Talca and later taught drawing at the Girls' High School No. 6 in Santiago.<ref name="AVC"/>
During 1904 to 1905, Burchard frequented the Tolstoyan Colony ({{langx|es|Colonia Tolstoyana}}).<ref name="AVC"/> Although a contemporary of the Generación del 13, Burchard's work differed in both inspiration and aesthetic.<ref name="Zamorano Pérez"/> Burchard's work focused on nature, the essence of painting and on the representation of everyday and simple objects.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Zamorano Pérez"/>
In 1931, Burchard was appointed the administrator of the re-opened Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.<ref name="González-Vera"/> Burchard served as the facilities director from 1932 to 1935, and as a professor of painting and landscape until 1959.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="González-Vera"/><ref name="Zamorano Pérez">{{cite journal |last1=Zamorano Pérez |first1=Pedro Emilio |title=Educación artística en Chile: Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, Juan Francisco González y Pablo Burchard, tres maestros emblemáticos |journal=Atenea |date=2007 |issue=495 |pages=185–211 |doi=10.4067/S0718-04622007000100011 |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-04622007000100011&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Concepción, Chile |language=es|doi-access=free }}</ref> Burchard was notably the teacher of Herminia Arrate, Ximena Cristi, {{ill|Irene Domínguez|es}}, Sergio Montecino, Carlos Pedraza Olguín, Aída Poblete, Inés Puyó and Reinaldo Villaseñor.<ref name="ULAN"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Muñoz Méndez |first1=María Elena |title=Premio de Pintura Herminia Arrate de Dávila: Algunas notas sobre la pintora Herminia Arrate (1895–1941) |url=https://artes.uchile.cl/artes-visuales/sobre-el-departamento/premio-herminia-arrate-de-davila |website=Departamento de Artes Visuales |publisher=University of Chile |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>
In 1944, Burchard was awarded the inaugural National Prize of Art of Chile.<ref name="AVC"/><ref name="Memoria">{{cite web |title=Premio Nacional de Arte (1944-): Pablo Burchard Eggeling |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-96921.html |website=Memoria Chilena |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>
==Personal life== On 3 May 1917, Burchard married Julia Aguayo Trujillo.<ref name="Marriage">{{cite journal |title=No.147 Pablo Burchard Eggeling and Julia Aguayo Trujillo [Marriage Register] |journal=Chile, Civil Registration [database on-line]; Santiago; Recoleta; Matrimonios 1914–1917 |date=1917 |page=24 |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. |location=Lehi, Utah}}</ref> Burchard and Aguayo had three children including Pablo Burchard Aguayo, a painter, and Cuca Burchard, a painter and potter.<ref name="AVC"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Pablo Burchard Aguayo |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-40077.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Cuca Burchard |url=https://www.artistasvisualeschilenos.cl/658/w3-article-39568.html |website=Artistas Visuales Chilenos |publisher=Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts |access-date=11 May 2026 |location=Santiago, Chile |language=es}}</ref>
An active Freemason, Burchard left the organization in 1948 following a conversion to Christianity.<ref name="González-Vera"/>
On 13 July 1964 Burchard died in Santiago, aged 88.<ref name="AVC"/>
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