René Bértholo (Alhandra, 1935 – Vila Nova de Cacela, 10 June 2005) was a Portuguese artist, author of a multifaceted work focused mainly on painting, prints and sculpture but with incursions into other areas (such as music). In 1957 he married Lourdes Castro, and that year traveled to Munich, Germany, where he spent about a year, having exhibitions with Lourdes Castro, Costa Pinheiro and Gonçalo Duarte. He returned to Portugal for some time, and then settled in Paris in the winter of 1958. In that city created a screen printing device, which allows the edition of the magazine KWY, founded by you and Lourdes Castro, related to the group of the same name, formed by the couple and artists Costa Pinheiro, Gonçalo Duarte, Jose Escada, João Vieira, Jan Voss and Christo. As part of the group, he made exhibitions in the cities of Saarbrücken, Lisbon, Paris and Bologna.In Paris, he became a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation fellow from 1959 to 1960. In 1961, he made his first drawings and monotypes for scattering and accumulating images. In 1963 he made his first solo exhibition abroad at the Dragon Gallery in Paris, having participated throughout the 1960s in several group exhibitions within the framework of the Nouvelle Figuration movement. One of these exhibitions was Mythologies Quotidiennes, held in 19564 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. From 1966, began to construct several objects with movement, called reduced models. He was part of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and was responsible for a large mural in Halles, at the invitation of the Center for Contemporary Art. He also made various sculptures for urban spaces using color reinforced concrete and ceramics.
