"Poty Lazzarotto - Artist of Curitiba Streets" Top 5 Page for this destination Curitiba Favorite Tip by mircaskirca

Favorite thing: Napoleon Potyguara Lazzarotto (1924-1998), or simply Poty Lazzarotto, was an important curitibano painter and ilustrator. He graduated at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio and receiving the French government scholarship, studied litography at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the 50's he gave classes in schools of arts in Sao Paulo, Bahia, Recife and Curitiba. He participated in individual and collective exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.

Poty Lazzarotto illustrated important literary works of Jorge Amado, Graciliano Ramos, Machado de Assis, Guimaraes Rosa, Rachel de Queiroz and other Brazilian writers. He is the author of numerous public exhibitions in Curitiba, mainly panels of tiles and murals. The highlights are International Airport Afonso Pena, Praca 19 de Dezembro, Museu na Rua (Largo da Ordem), Teatro Guaira, Monumento ao Tropeiro, Biblioteca da PUC and Torre da Telepar. He also did murals of the House of Brazil in Paris and the panel for the Memorial da America Latina in Sao Paulo.

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