Museu Lasar Segall (in English : Lasar Segall Museum ) is an art museum in São Paulo , Brazil.
4-413: Designed in 1932 by architect Gregori Warchavchik , the building which houses the museum was the residence and art studio of Lithuanian Brazilian artist Lasar Segall until his death in 1957. Segall's family opened the museum in 1967 to showcase the work of the artist. The collection contains more than 3,000 items by Lasar Segall, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints. Museu Lasar Segall
8-660: A prominent industrialist in São Paulo, and became a naturalized Brazilian. His house in São Paulo, Casa da Rua Santa Cruz , built between 1927 and 1928, is considered the first modernist residence in Brazil. He designed the Lasar Segall Museum in São Paulo that opened in 1967. In 1930 he and Lucio Costa established a joint architecture studio in Rio de Janeiro, and one of the designers in the studio between 1932 and 1936
12-512: Is located at 111 Rua Berta in the Vila Mariana district of São Paulo and is operated by a non-profit foundation. This article related to a museum in Brazil is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gregori Warchavchik Gregori I. Warchavchik (April 2, 1896 – July 27, 1972) was a Jewish-Brazilian architect . Warchavchik was born in Odessa , Ukraine which
16-713: Was then a part of the Russian Empire . He began his architectural studies at Odessa University and moved to Rome in 1918 to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma , the Superior Institute of Fine Arts. He graduated in 1920 and worked as an assistant to the architect Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960), later known as the main proponent of Fascist architecture in Italy. Warchavchik arrived in Brazil in 1923. He married Mina Klabin in 1927, daughter of
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