Anna Bella Geiger

Anna Bella Geiger

Brazil - 1933

Polish-Brazilian, b. 1933

Geiger was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1933 to Polish immigrant parents. After participating in the First National Exhibition of Abstract Art in Rio in 1953, she studied art history and sociology at New York University. Returning to Brazil, she became a teacher and a participant in Brazil’s conceptual art scene. A pioneer of video art in Brazil, she also became known for her work in a variety of reproduction techniques, particularly engraving, photomontage and photogravure. In 1987 she published Abstraccionismo geométrico e informal: a vanguadia brasiliera nos anos cinquenta (Informel and Geometric Abstraction: The Brazilian Avant-Garde of the 1950s), a key text on Brazilian art of the 1950s co-authored with Fernando Cocchiarale.

Sources:
Photo: https://www.historiadasartes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/m_foto-360x450.jpg
Text: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/geiger-our-daily-bread-t14257

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