Athos Bulcão (July 2, 1918 – July 31, 2008) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was born in

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a ...

Biography

Athos Bulcão was born in Rio de Janeiro on July 2, 1918. In the 1940s he assisted

Cândido Portinari Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. Portinari ...

with the "São Francisco de Assis" painting at the Pampulha Church, in Belo Horizonte. Later he moved to

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

, where he lived until 1949. Returning to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, he became one of the collaborators of the construction of

Brasília Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...

, taking part in several of

Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...

's projects. In 1958 he moved to Brasília, where he lived until his death in 2008. Athos Bulcão died in

on July 31, 2008, due to complications from

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that mainly affects the motor system. The symptoms usually emerge slowly, and as the disease worsens, non-motor symptoms becom ...

References

External links

Athos Bulcão Foundation
(in Portuguese)
ATHOS BULCÃO : E A MODERNA AZULEJARIA BRASILEIRA
(in Portuguese) 1918 births 2008 deaths Deaths from Parkinson's disease Neurological disease deaths in Federal District (Brazil) Artists from Rio de Janeiro (city) 20th-century Brazilian painters 20th-century Brazilian male artists {{Brazil-painter-stub