Marcelo Grassmann

Marcelo Grassmann (São Simão, São Paulo, 1925 - São Paulo, São Paulo, 2013).
Engraver, illustrator, teacher and produces drawings.
He studied wood carving at the Escola Profissional Masculina do Brás.He worked as an illustrator at the Literary Supplement of the Diário de São Paulo between 1947 and 1948, and the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo in 1948.
He has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 1949, working as an illustrator of the newspaper of the State of Guanabara. He attends the courses of engraving in metal, with Henrique Oswald (1918-1965), and lithography, with Poty Lazzarotto (1924-1998) at the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts.
In 1952, he lives in Salvador, where he works with Mario Cravo Júnior (1923). In 1953, he received a prize to travel abroad from the National Salon of Modern Art (SNAM), and traveled to Vienna, where he studied at the Academy of Applied Arts. He began to devote himself mainly to drawing, lithography and metal engraving. In 1969, all of his works were acquired by the government of the State of São Paulo, becoming part of the collection of the Pinacoteca of the State of São Paulo (Pesp).
In 1978, the house where he was born, in São Simão, was transformed into a museum, on the initiative of the Secretary of Culture, Science and Technology of São Paulo and registered by the Council for the Defense of Historical, Artistic, Archaeological and Tourist Patrimony of the State of São Paulo (Condephaat) in the same year. Between 1991 and 1992, Grassmann is a Fellow of Fundação Vitae, in São Paulo.