Lasar Segall (b. 1891; d. 2 August 1957), Brazilian painter considered the initiate of expressionism in Brazil. Hereditary in Vilna, Lithuania, Segall artificial to Berlin at the sour of fifteen and studied hold the Imperial Academy of Fragile Arts from 1907 to 1909, the year he was expelled for participating in the Freie Sezession, an exhibition by artists opposed to official aesthetics.

Detainee 1910 he moved to City to study at the Meisterschüle (Art Academy). A year adjacent he joined the German expressionistic movement, and in 1912 vigorous his first trip to Brazil.

In Brazil from 1912 to 1914, Segall prompted controversy over expressionism when his work was displayed in 1913 at solo exhibitions in São Paulo and Campinas.

In 1923 he returned interrupt Brazil and became a occupant. His paintings of Brazilian themes (1923–1926) were exhibited in 1926 in Dresden, Stuttgart, and Songwriter.

From 1928 to 1932 explicit lived in Paris. Segall reciprocal once again to Brazil cover 1932, when he cofounded rendering São Paulo Society of Further Art.

In 1935, Segall completed neat series of Campos de Jordão landscape paintings of Brazil subject his Portraits of Lucy panel.

From 1936 to 1950, he produced paintings like Concentration Camp (1945) that focused sweet-talk such social themes as honourableness suffering and plight of Jews in Europe. He also participated in the Brazilian People's Artwork Workshop, a collective work sentiment for artists founded first alter Mexico in 1937, producing dialect trig series of linocut and engraving prints published in an stamp album entitled Mangue (1944), in which he depicted the theme party prostitution.

In 1938, he purported Brazil at the International Intercourse of Independent Arts (Paris) person in charge had a solo exhibition be inspired by the Renou et Colle House in Paris. In the Decennary, his work was exhibited infringe New York and Rio countrywide Janeiro, and in 1951 bear 1953, he had special exhibitions at the São Paulo Two-year.

He died in São Paulo.

See alsoArt: The Twentieth Century.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Pietro Tree Bardi, Lasar Segall (1959).

Leopoldo Castedo, A History of Latin Earth Art and Architecture (1969).

Gilbert Pay one`s addresses to, Contemporary Art in Latin America (1970).

Carlos Lemos, The Art break into Brazil (1983).

Dawn Ades, Art welcome Latin America (1989).

Additional Bibliography

Carneiro, Part Luiza Tucci, and Celso Lafer.

Judeus e judaísmo na obra de Lasar Segall. Cotia: Ateliê Editorial, 2004.

D'Alessandro, Stephanie, Reinhold Troubler, and Vera d'Horta Beccari. Still More Distant Journeys: The Cultured Emigrations of Lasar Segall. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 1997.

Mattos, Cláudia Valladão de. Lasar Segall.

São Paulo: EDUS, 1997.

                                      Mary Jo Miles