Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy

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Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy (* 1951 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Brazilian art critic and art historian .

life and work

Carlos Roberto Maciel Levy first studied communication science at the Universidade Federal Fluminense , graduating in 1974. Between 1973 and 1976 he directed the Museu Antônio Parreiras in Niterói , which is dedicated to the Brazilian painter Antônio Parreiras , then in 1978 he was director of the Museu Histórico do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

From 1979 to 1983 he taught visual communication at the traditional Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (EBA UFRJ), which emerged from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, later also the National School of Fine Arts, and taught in 1985 he at the College of Industrial Design in Rio de Janeiro.

So far Levy has written five books on Brazilian art of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular on academic painting in Brazil , including a book on the work of the German-born landscape painter Johann Georg Grimm and his group of artists Grupo Grimm (1980), who are the Had turned towards plein air painting .

His work contains extensive studies on the painters Parreiras (1981) and Castagneto (1982), who were awarded by the Câmara Brasileira do Livro and the "Instituto Nacional do Livro". In 1981 he received the Prêmio Jabuti literary prize for his O Grupo Grimm. Paisagismo brasileiro no Século XIX as the best art book of this year. Levy was involved as a co-author of other art history books.

From 1984 he worked in an independent research project on the use of information technology to develop important sources of documentation for the history of art in Brazil and for this purpose received a financial grant from the Vitae Foundation in 1990.

As a curator he supervised over thirty exhibitions in public and private cultural institutions and from 1972 to 2002 gave over 40 lectures in Brazilian universities and museums in Rio, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.

Committee work: Levy was a member of the Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte, the Brazilian Association of Art Critics, from 1973 to 2003 and of the International Association of Art Critics from 1982 to 2003 and of the Brazilian Committee of the International Council of Museums , the International Council of Museums , from 1982 to 2002 .

In recent years he has devoted his attention to the life and work of Johann Georg Grimm, about whom he published his own book in 2009. An article from it, “Johann Georg Grimm e as fazendas de café” (Johann Georg Grimm and the coffee plantations) was made available for reading on the Internet in December 2010.

Fonts

  • O Grupo Grimm. Paisagismo brasileiro no Século XIX. Pinacoteca, Rio de Janeiro 1980.
  • Antônio Parreiras (1860-1937). Pintor de paisagem, gênero e história. Pinakotheke, Rio de Janeiro 1981
  • Giovanni Battista Castagneto (1851-1900). O pintor do mar. Pinacoteca, Rio de Janeiro 1982
  • 150 anos de pintura de marinha na história da arte brasileira. Exposição reunindo 118 pinturas de autoria de 74 artistas e analisando a ocorrência do tema entre os anos de 1790 a 1945. Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro 1982.
  • Exposições gerais da academia imperial e da escola nacional de belas artes. Período monárquico. Catálogo de artistas e obras entre 1840 e 1884. Art gallery, Rio de Janeiro 1990.
  • Johann Georg Grimm. Vida e obra. Rio de Janeiro 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Levy, Carlos Roberto Maciel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian art critic and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro