Nativismo e identidade visual brasileira nos artigos de Karl-August Herborth para O Jornal (1926-1927)

In 1920 German-born ceramicist and teacher Karl-August Herborth (1878-1968) arrived in Rio de Janeiro, following an invitation to work in the local ceramic industry. During the following seven years, Herborth directed the Manufatura Nacional de Porcelanas in Rio de Janeiro and founded the Companhia...

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Published inCaiana no. 7; pp. 55 - 68
Main Author Arthur Valle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 01.12.2015
Subjects
Brazilian modern art
Karl-August Herborth
National Identity
Nativism
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Summary:In 1920 German-born ceramicist and teacher Karl-August Herborth (1878-1968) arrived in Rio de Janeiro, following an invitation to work in the local ceramic industry. During the following seven years, Herborth directed the Manufatura Nacional de Porcelanas in Rio de Janeiro and founded the Companhia Brasileira de Porcelana in Minas Gerais, where he worked as the technical director. In 1926 and 1927, Herborth also played the role of art theorist, writing for the newspaper O Jornal, edited in Rio de Janeiro, a series of articles featuring the main ideas that guided his work in Brazil. "The role of indigenous culture in Brazilian art", "The primitive art of Brazil and its significance for modern art", “The value of Marajó ceramics”: these are just a few titles of Herborth’s articles published in O Jornal, which eloquently express his aesthetic concerns. Notably, he advocated the creation of a decorative vocabulary inspired by the material culture of Brazilian native peoples, whose ornamental motifs he compiled and proposed in new interpretations. In this paper, our intention is to discuss Herborth’s propositions as well as his contribution to the debates on Brazilian artistic identity in the 1920s.
ISSN:2313-9242
2313-9242