Ismael Nery, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ismael Nery

Brazilian artist

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1900

Place of Birth: Belém, Pará, Brazil

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1934

Profession: architect, painter

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Ismael Nery (October 9, 1900 - April 6, 1934) was a Brazilian artist. Born in Belém, Pará of Dutch, Native-Brazilian and African ancestry, he studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (National School of Fine Arts) in Rio de Janeiro and at the Académie Julian in Paris.
He created numerous paintings, wrote many poems and also helped design Brazil's National Patrimony of the Treasury department.
Nery married a poet, Adalgisa Nery, in 1922.
He contracted tuberculosis in 1931, and died of it in 1934.
His iconic work is called Autorretrato, 1927 a surrealist painting commonly compared to the Green Violinist of Marc Chagall.