Lasar Segall Museum, Art museum in Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil.
The Lasar Segall Museum occupies a 1932 modernist building designed by architect Gregori Warchavchik with white walls and geometric forms in Vila Mariana. Inside are more than 3,000 works including paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures showing the artist's creative evolution.
The building was constructed in 1932 as the residence and studio of Lithuanian-Brazilian artist Lasar Segall who created a space for his artistic practice. After his death in 1957, it was opened as a museum in 1967 and has preserved his artistic legacy ever since.
The museum displays how Segall filled his personal spaces with creative works reflecting his life in Brazil and ties to European artistic traditions. Visitors can see how rooms blur between living quarters and studio, showing how the artist's daily life and creative work were intertwined.
The museum is at Rua Berta 111 in Vila Mariana, south of central São Paulo; the nearest metro is Ana Rosa, not Santa Cruz. The building was designed in 1932 by Gregori Warchavchik, Segall's brother-in-law, and the former residence and studio are part of the visit. The museum closed for renovation in December 2013, a project budgeted at R$2.5 million.
The museum's library holds Brazil's most important theatre collection, including books once owned by critics Lopes Gonçalves, Georges Raeders and Anatol Rosenfeld. The Cine Segall screens art films and forms part of São Paulo's cultural circuit. The building was designed in 1932 by Gregori Warchavchik, Segall's brother-in-law.
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