Bruno Giorgi
Illustration — Escultura (1970) sculpture by Bruno Giorgi • Illustration — Os Candangos (1959) by Bruno Giorgi at Praça dos Três Poderes, Brasília, Brazil Bruno Giorgi (13 August 1905, Mococa – 7 September 1993, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian sculptor, who worked within Brazilian modernism. He was from a small town in the interior of São Paulo state called Mococa. Although born in Brazil he spent much of his early life in Europe as his family returned to Italy when he was age six, and he did not return to Brazil until 1939.
Bruno Giorgi
Skulptisto: Bruno Giorgi · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1905 · Mococa.
- Died
- 1993 · Rio de Janeiro.
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · artist
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Movements
- abstract art · Brazilian modernism
- Education
- Académie de la Grande Chaumière
- Known for
- Monument to José de Anchieta · Meteoro
- Languages
- Portuguese
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Illustration — Escultura (1970) sculpture by Bruno Giorgi • Illustration — Os Candangos (1959) by Bruno Giorgi at Praça dos Três Poderes, Brasília, Brazil Bruno Giorgi (13 August 1905, Mococa – 7 September 1993, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian sculptor, who worked within Brazilian modernism. He was from a small town in the interior of São Paulo state called Mococa. Although born in Brazil he spent much of his early life in Europe as his family returned to Italy when he was age six, and he did not return to Brazil until 1939.
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Bruno Giorgi studied at Académie de la Grande Chaumière. The recorded working language is Portuguese. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are abstract art. Works named in the authority record are Monument to José de Anchieta and Meteoro.
• ' (1959), public art sculpture in front of the Palácio do Planalto in Praça dos Três Poderes, Brasília, Brazil • ' (1968), public art sculpture in the lake of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building, Brasília, Brazil • Escultura (1970), public sculpture, Palácio dos Bandeirantes, São Paulo, Brazil • O Flautista, sculpture, Palácio do Planalto, Brasília, Brazil; destroyed during protests
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Mococa.
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