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Abramo, Livio
(b Araraquara, 1903). Brazilian printmaker and teacher. He worked initially as a printmaker and painter until 1933 when, influenced by Lasar Segall’s expressionism, he abandoned painting for wood-engraving, which he had first practised in São Paulo c. 1926. He initially treated social themes such as the São Paulo working class. Between 1935 and 1938 he produced a series of wood-engravings, Spain, based on the Spanish Civil War, for example War (1937; U. São Paulo, Inst. Estud. Bras.). In 1950 he won a trip abroad from the Salão Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, and visited Italy, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands. On his return he made the series of wood-engravings, Rio, with scenes and landscapes characterized by a frank lyricism. He was named best national engraver in the first São Paulo Bienal in 1951. His constant activity as a teacher influenced many younger engravers. In 1957 he founded the Julian de la Herreria engraving workshop in Asunción, Paraguay, and in 1960 the Estúdio Gravura in São Paulo. From 1962 he lived in Asunción, where he became director of the Centro de Estudos Brasileiros. In later years his work tended towards a geometrization of space as in the series on rain and on groups of Paraguayan houses, for instance Paraguay (1962; São Paulo, E. Wolf priv. col.; see exh. cat., pl. 112). He had a large retrospective in 1977 in the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo.
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