Lasar Segall

Lasar Segall ( born July 21, 1891 in Vilnius, † August 2, 1957 in São Paulo ) was a Lithuanian- Brazilian painter, printmaker and sculptor of Jewish faith.

Life and work

Lazar was born the sixth of eight children of Esther Ghodes Glaser Segall and Abel Segall on July 21, 1891 at the Jewish quarter of Vilnius. At fourteen, he attended the Drawing School of Vilnius, with fifteen, he went to Berlin and continues here his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 1910 he goes as a master student at the Art Academy of Dresden and closes his studies here. 1912 to 1913 he undertook his first trip to Brazil, where he visited his siblings Oscar, Jacob and Luba. The end of 1913 he returned to Germany, where he married in 1918 Margaret Quack.

In 1919 he founded with artist friends and colleagues such as Otto Dix, Conrad Felix Müller, Wilhelm Heckrott, Otto Lange, Constantin von Mitschke - Collande, Peter August Böckstiegel, Otto Schubert, Gela Forster and Hugo Zehder, the Dresden Secession. There follow many exhibitions and traveling in Europe. 1924 separates it from Margarete Quack and returns to Brazil. In 1932 he co-founded the Sociedade Pró -Arte Moderna (SPAM). Followed by exhibitions in Europe and Brazil. In Germany he is one of the ostracized artists organized by the Nazis exhibition ' Degenerate Art ' of 1937 in Munich. In 1955, he will have a private room on the III. Biennale of Modern Art in São Paulo honored. On August 2, 1957 Lasar Segall dies at 66 years in São Paulo.

On September 21, 1967 in São Paulo Lasar Segall Museum opened.

Style

Subject of his painting of the man was in relation to other people and to God, with his pictures " of religious power " increased. Were painted by him " beggars, starving, emigrants, persecuted Jews, from work exhausted, sick people in the waiting room of the doctor and the dying ." At its style emphasizes the intensity and religious strength especially. He worked with " the greatest intensity of expression and self-denying strokes and colors". He renounced " ascetic with tenacity to every expendable means of color and form "