CURRICULUM English

                                      september 2020

            Daniel Heide was born in Montevideo, son of Lola Lecour, well known artist of the Twenties and Thirties.

            Heide  studied drawing and painting at the National School of Fine Arts with Vicente Martín in the late Fifties.

            He received several prizes, such as: Acquisition Prize, Municipal Exhibition 1963; First Prize Ford, Museum of American Arts, 1975. Scholarship for Young Artists, National Committee of Fine Arts (selected finalist), 1973. Second Prize, Mural Contest Tres Cruces Bus Station, 2009.

            He performed his first one man show at Karlen Gugelmeier Gallery and Aramayo Gallery in the years 1974 and 1975.

            In 1976 he moved to México where he carried out most of his artistic career. In the eighties he moved to San Francisco, to paint  under exclusive contract for San Francisco Art Exchange.1965-1989.

            He returned in the nineties to Uruguay, where he made mural paintings and large canvases for several  private and public institutions (banks,  hospitals, railway station, bus station).

            He is a graduate architect from the School of Architecture at the Republic University of Uruguay. As an architect he worked in town planning, public housing, , coastal environment.

            He exercised art criticism and published many articles about art, architecture and social customs.

            Currently he lives and works in his 19^th century atelier in Ciudad Vieja, (old town) Montevideo-