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(b. Sío Paulo Brazil in 1889; she died in 1964 in Sao Paulo). Her mother was of German descent and her father was an Italian engineer. She attended Mackenzie College in Sío Paolo and then the imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. With the outbreak of WWI she returned to Brazil before moving to New York where she got involved in the Art Students' League. In New York she studied at the Independent School where she met Marcel Duchamp, Jean Crotti, and Isadora Duncan. In 1916 she returned to Brazil and began exhibiting regularly. Her exhibition at the Libbero Badaro Sío Paulo was received with great scandal and subsequently she gained further recognition. She was involved in the founding of the "Groupo dos Cinco" in 1922. She has had numerous international exhibitions and retrospectives throughout South America.
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