THEODOR HEUBERGER, KUNSTHÄNDLER: BETWEEN MODERNIST ARTISTIC PREDILECTIONS AND NAZI PROPAGANDA IN BRAZIL (1924-1942)

ABSTRACT

Theodor Heuberger was a Kunsthändler working in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Educated in Munich, he organized exhibitions in Brazil with artworks by important names of German Expressionism and was the first to exhibit the artist Käthe Kollwitz in the country. He also disseminated new store and exhibition design patterns connected to the aesthetic of Deutscher Werkbund in Brazilian cultural milieu. Despite fostering Expressionism in the country, he founded a magazine of cultural exchange between Germany and Brazil in which modern art gradually came to share space, during the 1930s and the following decade, with official messages from Germany. As a supporter of German modern art, the journal Intercâmbio would end its days as a vehicle for Nazi propaganda.

KEYWORDS:
Heuberger; Expressionism; Käthe Kollwitz; Deutscher Werkbund; Intercâmbio