Museum
Museu Lasar Segall
Rua Berta, 111 - Vila Mariana, São Paulo - SP, 04120-040
Former home and studio of a modernist immigrant painter, now housing three thousand of his works.
This guide to the Museu Lasar Segall in São Paulo follows a painter born in 1891 Vilnius to a Torah-scribe father, who left for Berlin and Dresden as a teenager, helped found a radical expressionist movement there, and kept returning to Brazil until 1923 finally made it home for good. You'll hear how architect Gregori Warchavchik designed him this house and studio, and how his old European paintings were later seized and mocked back home, ten of them hung in an exhibition built to humiliate him. It follows what he chose to paint in response, and why.
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