Lasar Segall - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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saopaulo1
S 22° 55.334 W 043° 10.367
23K E 687385 N 7463925
Quick Description: Bust of Brazilian Paint Lasar Segall.
Location: Brazil
Date Posted: 4/21/2008 5:17:40 PM
Waymark Code: WM3MRR
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Long Description:
From Wikipedia: "Segall was born in Vilnius, but moved to Berlin at
the age of 15 and studied at the Royal Prussian College of Fine
Arts. Frustrated with the academic school of painting in vogue
there, he left for Dresden in 1910 and began developing his own
style, which incorporated aspects of Cubism while exploring
Segall's Jewish background. In 1912 he went to São Paulo, Brazil,
where three of his siblings were already living. He returned to
Dresden shortly thereafter, but had already been greatly influenced
by his time in Brazil, which transformed both his style and his
subject matter. Several of his paintings in this period feature the
Brazilian jungle, often represented by a mass of green geometrical
shapes. His painting Encounter shows an interracial couple, a
common but socially complex Brazilian phenomenon.
In 1923 he moved with his first wife, Margarete, to São Paulo,
where he organized a major solo exhibition the following year.
Segall continued to spend time in Germany (where his first son,
with his second wife Jenny, was born), but became a naturalized
Brazilian citizen in 1927. The painting shown here, of the
modernist poet and theorist Mário de Andrade, was painted that
year; through Andrade, he would have had access to many of the
major figures in the Brazilian modernist movement.
From 1928 to 1932 he lived in Paris, where he developed for the
first time an interest in sculpture (even his bronzes of this
period, though, reflect Brazilian themes). He returned to São Paulo
permanently in 1932, to a combination house and studio designed by
the modernist architect Gregori Warchavchik, where he lived for the
rest of his life. The house is one of São Paulo's iconic modernist
buildings, and is now a museum devoted to Segall's life and
work."