Franz Joseph Weissmann (Knittelfeld, Austria, 1911 \u2013 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 2005) was a sculptor, draftsman, painter, and teacher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He moved to Brazil in 1921. In Rio de Janeiro, between 1939 and 1941, he attended courses in architecture, sculpture, painting, and drawing at the National School of Fine Arts (Enba). From 1942 to 1944, he studied drawing, sculpture, modeling, and casting with August Zamoyski (1893-1970). In 1945, he moved to Belo Horizonte, where he taught private lessons in drawing and sculpture. Three years later, Guignard (1896-1962) invited him to teach sculpture at the Escola do Parque, which later became known as the Guignard School. Initially, his work was based on figuration. From the 1950s onward, he gradually developed a constructivist approach, emphasizing geometric forms, subjecting them to cuttings and folds, and using sheets of iron, steel wires, and aluminum in rod or sheet form. He joined the Grupo Frente in 1955. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
No ano seguinte, voltou a residir no Rio de Janeiro e participou da Exposi\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional de Arte Concreta, em 1957. Foi um dos fundadores do Grupo Neoconcreto, em 1959. Nesse ano, viajou para a Europa e o Extremo Oriente, retornando ao Brasil em 1965. Na d\u00e9cada de 1960, exp\u00f4s a s\u00e9rie Amassados<\/em>, elaborada na Europa com chapas de zinco ou alum\u00ednio trabalhadas a martelo, porrete e instrumentos cortantes, alinhando-se temporariamente ao informalismo. Posteriormente, voltou a aproximar-se das vertentes construtivas. Nos anos 1970, recebeu o pr\u00eamio de melhor escultor da Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Paulista de Cr\u00edticos de Artes (APCA), participou da Bienal Internacional de Escultura ao Ar Livre, em Antu\u00e9rpia, B\u00e9lgica, e da Bienal de Veneza.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n He created monumental sculptures for public spaces in various Brazilian cities, such as in Pra\u00e7a da S\u00e9, S\u00e3o Paulo; Parque da Catacumba, Rio de Janeiro; and the Pal\u00e1cio das Artes, Belo Horizonte.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":701,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-689","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flexagaleria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}