Composition with Semicircles

Franz Weissmann was a Brazilian sculptor whose abstract forms in bronze and steel emerged from the postwar modernist ferment of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Working primarily in geometric and biomorphic abstraction, his welded and cast pieces occupied a distinctive position between European constructivism and the developing Brazilian modernist idiom. His monumental public commissions established him as a central figure in twentieth-century Latin American sculpture.

Knittelfeld, Austria