Almir mavignier biography of abraham

Almir Da Silva Mavignier (1 May 1925, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 3 September 2018, Hamburg, Germany) was a visual artist, graphic designer, pedagogue.

Prior to emigrating to Europe from his native Brazil, he and Abraham Palatnik founded a studio that held painting classes for patients of psychiatric hospitals. At the time, he was interested in Gestalt theory and began making connections between science and art.

When he returned to Brazil, still a figurative painter, in the late s, he was invited by artist and friend Almir Mavignier to visit the Pedro II Psychiatric.

After completing his studies at the Ulm School of Design under Max Bill, he set up his own graphic design studio and also became affiliated with the Zero group, an experimental collective from Düsseldorf that ran a magazine of the same name.

The group was invested in the idea that art should no longer serve as the domain of emotions and subjective expression. Mavignier believed that art and design are related, distinguished only by their goal, which is why his career as a designer and an artist developed in parallel.

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