Livio Abramo

Place: Araraquara

Born: 1903

Death: 1992

Biography:

Lívio Abramo was a Brazilian-born Paraguayan sketcher, engraver, and aquarellist. He was born on June 23, 1903, in Araraquara, Brazil to Italian-Jewish parents of Sephardic background. He is considered to be 'a key player in this development of Paraguayan modern art.' In his book Etapas de un itinerario: grabados, dibujos, acuarelas de Livio Abramo, Abramo claimed that his artistic skills were entirely autodidactic, and that many of his creations were inspired by his political views. Scholars consider him to be influenced by Oswaldo Goeldi and by German expressionists such as Käthe Kollwitz.