Frans Krajcberg

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Frans Krajcberg (born April 12, 1921 in Kozienice , Poland ; † November 15, 2017 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a sculptor , painter , photographer and, from 1957, a Brazilian citizen.

Life

Frans Krajcberg studied art and engineering at the University of Leningrad and gave up studies to join the Polish army from 1941 to 1945 . He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust . After the Second World War he settled in Germany and studied from the winter semester 1947/48 to the winter semester 1948/49 including with Willi Baumeister at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . He received a letter of recommendation for Fernand Léger from Willi Baumeister . He stayed in Paris for six months and, with the support of Marc Chagall , traveled on to Brazil in 1948. He disembarked in Rio de Janeiro , but only stayed there for a few days. He settled in São Paulo and took part in the first São Paulo Biennale in 1951 with two works .

In 1952 he moved to the state of Paraná and worked there as an engineer in a paper mill. However, he soon gave up his work and withdrew to the isolation of the forest to paint. In 1956 he settled in Rio de Janeiro and shared a studio there with Franz Weissmann . In the following year he took part in the IV São Paulo Biennale and was named “Best Brazilian Painter”. From 1958 he commuted between Paris, Ibiza and Rio de Janeiro.

In 1964 he installed an open-air studio in Cata Branca , near Pico do Itabirito , a 1,586 m high peak in the state of Minas Gerais and today's natural heritage. Here he worked with stones and manganese nodules and created his first sculptures from dead trees and trunks. In 1965 he traveled to Nova Viçosa in the south of Bahia State for the first time , where in 1972 he set up his studio on the "Sítio Natura".

View of the “Natura” exhibition in the Oca pavilion of Parque do Ibirapuera , São Paulo, 2008

In 1978 he traveled to Amazonia with the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Sepp Baendereck . Restany recorded his travel experiences in the “Manifesto of the Rio Negro”, also known as the “Manifeste du Naturalisme Integral”. In 1984 Krajcberg published the book "A Cidade de São Luiz do Maranhão" with his own photographs and in 1986 the book "Natura" with texts by Antônio Houaiss. In 1996 he realized the exhibition "Villete-Amazone / Manifesto para o Meio Ambiente no Século XXI" in the Grand Halle de la Villete in Paris. In 1998 he received the “Prêmio Multicultural Estado” from the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo , and in 2001 he was awarded the “Medalha da Ordem de Rio Branco ” in the Brazilian Embassy in Paris .

Last devoted Frans Krajcberg to his art and his recently inaugurated a permanent exhibition facilities in Curitiba , the "Espaço Frans Krajcberg" in the Jardim Botanico de Curitiba and in Paris, the "Espace Krajcberg" in the Musée du Montparnasse , as well as the consolidation of the Museu Ecológico Frans Krajcberg in Nova Viçosa, Bahia.

literature

  • Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): About builders: the artist and teacher in the judgment of his students. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 2006 (= WerkstattReihe / [State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart] edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 15), therein p. 37 (Krajcberg statement on master builder lessons), p. 51–52 ( biographical data) ISBN 3-931485-77-3 .
  • Antônio Houaiss (text), Frans Krajcberg (photos): Natura. Ed. Index, Rio de Janeiro 1987.
  • Frans Krajcberg. DA Verlag Das Andere, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-922619-24-X .

Web links

Commons : Frans Krajcberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morre, aos 96 anos, escultor Frans Krajcberg. In: Estadão. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ At that time still with the first name Efraim, see the directory of Willi Baumeister's students at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart 1946–1955, in: Wolfgang Kermer : Der schöpferische Winkel: Willi Baumeister's pedagogical activity . Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1992 (= contributions to the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart , edited by Wolfgang Kermer; 7), p. 199.
  3. ^ Pierre Restany: Manifeste du Rio Negro , August 3, 1978 (French), accessed January 28, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Krajcberg, Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Brazilian sculptor, painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Kozienice , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 2017
Place of death Rio de Janeiro , Brazil