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In Memory of a Great Artist: The Sao Paulo Museum Lasar Segall
The Sao Paulo Museum Lasar Segall is a modern art lover’s dream, as it showcases the thought processes and inherent surroundings of an artist from the modern era, just as it was during his lifetime. The museum strives to preserve and study the work of Lasar Segall and to provide a place for other artists to reflect and experiment with their artistic talents, contributing to the lifeblood of the art community in Brazil.
It was in 1967 that the Sao Paulo Museum Lasar Segall was founded by his children and widow, and it is located in his former place of residence that was built in 1932 by his brother-in-law, a Russian architect. Segall himself was an immigrant from Lithuania, and it was his work that became the driving force behind the Modernist art movement in Sao Paulo and Brazil. His birth in the Jewish ghetto of Vilnius in 1891 shouldn’t have allowed him to succeed in anything at all – and yet his drive to create art allowed him to overcome all odds.
After moving to Brazil in 1923, Segall’s work grew increasingly geometric and abstract. He lived in the house that is now the Sao Paulo Museum Lasar Segall from 1932 until his death in 1957, and nearly everything that he created during this period is on display here – his sculptures, watercolors, oil paintings, graphite sketches, pen drawings, prints and painting tools, as well as a library, a room for showing films on modern art, and an art workshop.
Today, the museum offers cultural activities, guided tours, and courses in some of Segall’s favorite but lesser-known areas of creativity: engraving, creative writing, and photography. Since the museum is non-profit, it receives funding from the Cultural Association of Friends of the Lasar Segall Museum, which helps to raise the finances needed to continue the cost of keeping the museum open.
Visitors may be intrigued to view the mind of a modern artist as it developed through his paintings, from the very early works he created while living in Germany which featured poor and suffering people, to his later works in Brazil that featured a revolution in color and lighting, as he was removed from the stifling European environment and into the brilliant landscape of South America.
The Sao Paulo Museum Lasar Segall is open from Tuesday to Saturday, 2pm until 7pm, and on Sundays there are reduced hours from 2pm until 6pm. Entry to the museum is free of charge, though if you enjoy what you see, it may be worthwhile considering a donation to the continued work that the museum carries out for the public and arts community in the city. The museum can be found at Rua Berta 111 in Vila Mariana, and the telephone number for additional information is (11)5574-7322.
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