Iberê Bassani Camargo (18 November 1914, in
Restinga Seca – 8 August 1994, in
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, ; , ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian Federative units of Brazil, state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the List of largest cities in Brazil, 11th-most p ...
) was a Brazilian painter, one of the greatest
expressionist 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
museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...
is located in a building designed by Portuguese
architect
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Álvaro Siza. Thousands of
painting
Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...
s by Camargo are on display there.
External links
Iberê Camargo Foundation website
References
1914 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Brazilian painters
20th-century Brazilian male artists
Brazilian contemporary artists
People from Porto Alegre
People from Rio Grande do Sul
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