Hermansen family (from Danish origin) meaning “Herman´s
son”, has being a part Maitencillo from a long
time ago.
The first coming to Chile was Christian Herrmansen,
sailor who met Juana Vergara in one of his trips to
the south. Their son Robinson later married Blanca Duchamp
and following some friends advices who talked about
a beautiful fishing spot in Chile´s central coast
bougth some land here on 1910 with some money he inherited.
After a long and exhausting trip from Santiago, first
by train to Palos Quemados station in Catapilco and
then horseback riding through Quebrada Aguas Claras,
he and his wife finally make it arriving to Maitencillo
with their little children Blanchette, Juan and Emilio.
Is Emilio the man who grew loving Maitencillo, very
attached to nature and simple things. Even though he
studied in Santiago in Manuel de Salas School, he lived
and contemplated the world as an intellectual and very
creative man. Later he studied drawing in Bellas Artes,
Santiago, won a scholarship from de United States to
study Works of Art Restoration, and developed his carreer
as a painter though many individual and collective shows.
His paintings are influenced by the time he lived on,
mainly abstract.
Until 1975 he also worked as Director of Light and Stage
Design in Teatro Municipal de Santiago, principal theatre
of our country. Nevertheless his artistic experience,
he thought of himself as a craftsman more than an artist.
His education and artistic vision led him incorporate
to the Masonry. Being an introvert person, Emilio also
enjoyed a charismatic personality, very passionate about
his ideas and projects.
In his permanent search for peace and quiet, in 1950
he decided to build a cabin in Maitencillo with his
own hands. But his work did not stop there and with
his wife´s help (First Ballerina in Teatro Municipal
de Santiago) went on with this passion all his life
until his death in 1986, when he left to his descendants
a total of 12 cabins and a large “maitencillan
family”. Emilio had three daughters and two sons:
most of them actually live in Maitencillo with his twelve
grandchildren.
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