Franz Weissmann
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Franz Josef Weissmann (September 15, 1911 — July 18, 2005) was a Brazilian sculptor born in Austria, emigrating to Brazil with eleven years old.[1] Geometric shapes, like cubes and squares, are strongly featured in his works.
Biography[edit]
Born in Knittelfeld, Austria, Franz Josef Weissmann came to Brasil in 1921. In Rio de Janeiro, between 1939 and 1941, he attended architecture, painting, drawing and sculpture classes at Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (Emba). From 1942 to 1944, he studied drawing, sculpture, modeling and foundry with August Zamoyski. In 1945,he moved to Belo Horizonte, where he taught drawing and sculpture in particular classes. Three years later Alberto da Veiga Guignard invites him to teach at Escola do Parque, later named Escola Guignard.
Weissmann's early works were mainly figurative .From 1950 on, he gradually developed a constructivist style, favoring geometric shapes, cutting and folding sheets of iron, steel wires and aluminum. He joins Grupo Frente, in 1955. The next year, he returns to no Rio de Janeiro and participates of the Exposição Nacional de Arte Concreta in 1957. He was one of the founders of Neo-Concrete movement, in 1959. In that year Weissman travels to Europe and East Asia, returning to Brazil in 1965.
In the 1960s, Weissman exhibits the series of sculptures Amassados (Dented), which he created in Europe with hammered zinc and aluminum sheets, aligning himself briefly to informalism. Posteriorly he came back to the constructivist works. In 1970 he was awarded the best sculptor by Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (APCA) and participates of the International Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, in Antwerp, Belgium, and of the Venice Biennale.
Weissman made several public art sculptures for Brazilian cities, like at Praça da Sé, in São Paulo and at Parque da Catacumba, in Rio de Janeiro.He kept studios in Belo Horizonte (1950); Madrid, (1962) and Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro (1956 and 1965).
Individual exhibitions[edit]
- 1962 Galeria São Jorge - Madri, Espanha
- 1963 Casa do Brasil - Roma, Itália
- 1964 Weissmann: chapas/dibujos' - Sala Nebli - Madri, Espanha
- 1972 Galeria Grupo B -Rio de Janeiro
- 1975 Franz Weissmann: esculturas, relevos e múltiplos' - Galeria de Arte Global -São Paulo
- 1975 Petite Galerie - Rio de Janeiro
- 1981 A Mecânica do Lirismo - Skultura Galeria de Arte - São Paulo
- 1981 Franz Weissmann - Galeria IAB/RJ - Rio de Janeiro
- 1981 Galerie Aktuell - Rio de Janeiro
- 1984 A Mecânica do Lirismo - Galeria Paulo Klabin - Rio de Janeiro
- 1985 Franz Weissmann: esculturas recentes - Galeria Thomas Cohn
- 1985 Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud - São Paulo
- 1987 Franz Weissmann - Gesto Gráfico - Belo Horizonte
- 1987 Franz Weissmann - Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud - São Paulo
- 1987 Franz Weissmann - Galeria Investiarte - Rio de Janeiro
- 1994 Franz Weissmann - Gabinete de Arte Raquel Arnaud - São Paulo
- 1996 MuBe - São Paulo
- 1998 Franz Weissmann: uma retrospectiva - CCBB e MAM/RJ
- 1999 Franz Weissmann: uma retrospectiva - MAM/SP
- 2000 Weissmann - Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer RJ
- 2001 Weissmann - Casa França Brasil - RJ
- 2003 No Fio do Espaço - Galeria Anna Maria Niemeyer RJ
References[edit]
- ^ Johnson, Ken (2005-07-25). "Franz Weissmann, Leading Brazilian Sculptor, Dies at 93". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-08-04.
External links[edit]
- Página Oficial: Franz Weissmann
- Coleção Gilberto Chauteaubriand - 100 anos de Arte Brasileira
- Caderno de Questões Vestibular Unicamp 2002
- Escultura - Funarj RJ
