Fayga Ostrower

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Fayga Perla Ostrower (born September 14, 1920 in Łódź , Poland ; † September 13, 2001 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a Brazilian painter and graphic artist . She was one of the most important representatives of abstract painting and printmaking after the Second World War .

Fayga Ostrower moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1930s and received Brazilian citizenship in 1934. She studied art and graphics at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas until 1947 with Axl Leskoscheck ( woodcut ) and copperplate engraving with Carlos Oswald . Equipped with a Fulbright scholarship , she visited New York City in 1957 .

Fayga Ostrower took part in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. Her art is exhibited in important museums in Brazil, Europe and America. She won the National Printmaking Prize at the 4th São Paulo Biennale in 1957 and the Grand International Printmaking Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1958. In 1959, she was a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in the graphics department. She participated in biennials in Argentina , Mexico and Venezuela in the early 1960s.

Between 1954 and 1970 she taught composition and critical analysis at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. In the 1960s she taught at Spellman College in Atlanta , USA and at the Slade School of Fine Art . She also worked for various postgraduate programs at Brazilian universities. In the 1970s she visited factories and public institutions in order to achieve a popular art education.

From 1963 to 1966 she was president of the Brazilian Association of Fine Arts ( Associação Brasileira de Artes Plásticas ) and from 1978 to 1982 she was the head of the Brazilian committee for the UNESCO institution International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) . In 1969 the National Library of Rio de Janeiro brought out an album with their prints from the period 1954 to 1966.

Fayga Ostrower was an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of Florence . She was on the cultural advisory board of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1982 to 1988. In 1972 she was awarded the Ordem de Rio Branco ( Rio Branco Order ) by the Brazilian government; In 1998 she received the Culture Prize in Brasília from the President of Brazil and in 1999 she was awarded the Grand National Prize of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture .

Fayga Ostrower was married to Heinz Ostrower (1913–1992), a German anti-fascist emigrant in Brazil. The two have two children: Anna Leonor (Noni) and Carl Robert.

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SURNAME Ostrower, Fayga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ostrower, Fayga Perla (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź , Poland
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 2001
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil