Tao Sigulda

Goethe Monument (bronze), Praça Dom José Gaspa, São Paulo

Tao Sigulda Janaina (born April 14, 1914 in Riga ; † February 10, 2006 in Jundiaí ) was a painter, sculptor, architect and cineast living in Brazil .

Life

In the early 1930s Tao Sigulda studied architecture and graduated from Tode in Riga. At the same time he began his art studies with Roman Sutta . In 1933 he received a scholarship and went to the Stuttgart Art School (with Alfred Lörcher, among others ). He traveled to Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and Palermo. Further stations in his career were Munich and Schwäbisch Gemünd.

In 1960 he traveled to Brazil with his wife Tama, originally with the intention of continuing to Canada. The following year he took part in an exhibition at Galeria Prestes Maia in São Paulo. Little by little, the couple began to take root in Brazil. Tama Sigulda herself worked as an art photographer and showed z. B. three works on the IX. Bienal de São Paulo 1967.

In the period 1985–2001 he founded and established his own cultural center in Figueira Branca, Jarinu / Campo Limpo Paulista, where not only well-known artists but also new talents were encouraged. With his wife he organized two group exhibitions a year.

A postage stamp was issued in Brazil on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Exhibitions

1986: 2nd Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Americana , Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Americana , Americana , SP

literature

Tao Sigulda: Ser. Informidade ea forma. 4th edition. Literarte, Jundiaí, SP 2003. (Contains aphorisms and maxims).
Heloisa de Aquino Azevedo: Tao Sigulda. A arte é a caligrafia da alma. Telas e conceitos. Educaçao & Cia, Campinas 2005. (Biography, 32 pages).
Margareth Brandini Park, Suely Aparecida Iório: Arte, educação e projetos. Árvore do Saber, Jundiaí, SP 2004, ISBN 85-89783-05-7 .

Web links

Commons : Tao Sigulda - collection of images, videos and audio files

Tao Sigulda CV (English)
Tao Sigulda in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural

Youtube posts:

Short report by TVTEC Jundiaí (Portuguese)
100 Years Tao Sigulda Teaser (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

↑ Walmir Ayala (ed.): Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. MEC / INL, Brasília 1980. Volume 4: Q a ZS 243.
↑ Exposição Filatelica em Campo Limpo Paulista. In: blogspot.com. Clube Filatélico Jundiaiense, March 20, 2014, accessed April 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).

personal data
SURNAME	Sigulda, Tao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Latvian-Brazilian painter, sculptor, architect and cineast
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 2006
Place of death	Jundiaí

[1] Walmir Ayala (ed.): Dicionário brasileiro de artistas plásticos. MEC / INL, Brasília 1980. Volume 4: Q a ZS 243.

[2] Exposição Filatelica em Campo Limpo Paulista. In: blogspot.com. Clube Filatélico Jundiaiense, March 20, 2014, accessed April 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).