de ORLEANS E BRAGANCA Biography

LELLI DE ORLEANS E BRANGANCA

www.lelliobraganca.com

Lelli’s paintings evoke times long lost, but not forgotten. She depicts dream-like landscapes with trees, birds, flowers and fields. The scenes are from here homeland Brazil, influenced by her idyllic childhood there; in the remote countryside in the state of Paraná where she lived with her parents Prince Pedro Henrique de Orleans e Bragança and Princess Maria da Baviera de Orleans e Bragança. Lelli, as she is fondly known, is a princess in the former royal family of

Brazil

. She is in fact a sister of Don Luis de Orleans e Bragança, the Prince who would be the present ruler of

Brazil

had the monarchy continued.

After a long journey in Europe where she completed art studies at the Van der Kelen School of Painting in Belgium, she returned to Brazil and started painting her majestic landscapes. Her style being greatly influenced by the years spent in Europe. Using acrylic paint and Brazilian oil with both huge and small brushes, landscapes take up the walls and almost reach the ceiling. In these eternally still paintings, she has captured the elaborated loveliness of a daydream, scenes in which your spirit can drift and find rest.

Lives and works in Rio de Janiero

Lelli de Orléans e Bragança a étudié les arts visuels à Rio de Janeiro puis a perfectionné ses connaissances à Bruxelles. Elle a aussi habité et travaillé à Paris et aux Etats-Unis. En 1996 elle est retournée au Brésil et s’est dédiée à la peinture de paysages tropicaux. Plus récemment, elle s’est inspirée des paysages du Moyen Orient.

Major exhibitions:

2007: Arthus Gallery, Brussels

2005: Bait Muzna Gallery, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

2000: Galerie der Erwin von Kreibig Stiftung, Schloss Nymphenburg, Germany

2000: Galeria A Janela Verde, Lisbon, Portugal

1996 : Casa Cor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil