Iberê Bassani Camargo (18 November 1914, in Restinga Seca – 8 August 1994, in

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) was a Brazilian painter, one of the greatest

expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

artists from his country. Shortly after his death, the Iberê Camargo Foundation was created by his widow, Maria Coussirat Camargo. Since 2008, the Foundation headquarters and

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is located in a building designed by Portuguese

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Álvaro Siza. Thousands of

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

s by Camargo are on display there.

External links

Iberê Camargo Foundation website
1914 births 1994 deaths 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists Brazilian contemporary artists {{Brazil-painter-stub