Francisco Stockinger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francisco Stockinger

Austrian sculptor

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1919

Place of Birth: Traun, Upper Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 12-Apr-2009

Profession: painter, cartoonist, sculptor

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Francisco Alexandre Stockinger (August 7, 1919 in Traun, Austria – April 12, 2009 in Porto Alegre, Brazil), also known as Chico Stockinger, was an Austrian artist and naturalized Brazilian.
Stockinger is known as one of the main Brazilian modern sculptors, but was also an active printmaker, photographer, cartoonist, and graphic artist.
Stockinger arrived in Brazil in 1921 and became a resident of São Paulo in 1929.
Stockinger was chairman of the Francisco Lisboa Rio Grande do Sul Association for the Visual Arts (Associação Rio-Grandense de Artes Plásticas Francisco Lisboa) from 1957 to 1978.