Lasar Segall

Lasar Segall was born in 1891 in Vilnius, then part of the Russian Empire, into a traditional Jewish family. He attended the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and was an active participant in the German Expressionist Movement. In 1923, Segall immigrated to Brazil – which he had already previously visited in 1913, when he had shown his work in the country’s first exhibitions of Modern Art, held in the cities of São Paulo and Campinas.

As of 1924, Lasar Segall became part of the São Paulo Modernist Movement. Segall was a contemporary of, and close to, painter Tarsila do Amaral, writer Oswald de Andrade and architect Gregori Warchavchik, who was husband to his wife’s sister.

Segall became a Brazilian citizen in 1927. Between 1928 and 1932, he lived in Paris with his wife Jenny Klabin Segall and their children, where he had a solo exhibition. Upon his return to São Paulo, he moved into a house designed by Gregori Warchavchik – the same one that now houses the Lasar Segall Museum – and proceeded to lead a career of international recognition, with exhibitions in Europe, the United States and Brazil.

Lasar Segall’s furniture was reedited for the first time in 2016 and shown by ETEL during that year’s edition of the SP-Arte fair.