Alessandra, Princess of Bismarck (née Silvestri-Lévy, born November 1, 1972, in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...
) is an
Italo-
Brazil
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ian art writer and curator. As the wife of
Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, she became the
Princess of Bismarck in 2019.
A patron of the
art
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There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...
s, she has produced and curated several exhibitions of photography, contemporary art, literature, and film festivals, mainly in Paris, São Paulo, and Havana. She was the International Executive Director for the Brazilian Cinema Foundation (
Cinemateca Brasileira
The Cinemateca Brasileira is the institution responsible for preserving Brazilian audiovisual production. In July 2021, it experienced a major fire.
Since 1940, it has been developing activities around the dissemination and restoration of its co ...
).
Publications
*2002: ''Cuba por Korda'' (with Christophe Lovigny). - Cosac Naify-Brasil, Ocean Press-USA, Calmann-Levy-France (), Kuntersman-Germany, Ediciones Aurelia, Spain.
Galleries
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*2002: ''Les Années Révolutionnaires'' - Éditions de l´Aube France ().
*2007: ''Cuba Sempre'' - Caros Amigos.
*2007: ''Che Guevara Combatente e Intelectual'' - Casa Amarela.
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Brazilian curators
Brazilian art historians
Brazilian biographers
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Living people
Brazilian human rights activists
1972 births
Women art historians
Writers from São Paulo
Brazilian women writers
Women biographers
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