Lasar Segall
The artist Lasar Segall was a Brazilian Jewish painter, engraver and sculptor born in Lithuania. Segalls work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism. His most significant themes were depictions of human suffering, war, persecution and prostitution.
Segall was born in Vilnius, Lithuania and was the son of a Torah scribe. Segall moved to Berlin at the age ofand studied first at Berlin Knigliche Akademie der Knste from 1906 to 1910. At the end of 1910 he moved to Dresden to continue his studies at the Kunstakademie Dresden as a Meisterschler.
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