Almir da Silva Mavignier

Alis da Silva Mavignier (Rio de Janeiro, 1925). Mavignier started studying painting in Rio de Janeiro in 1945; only four years later his first abstract picture emerged. At that time he joined the first group of abstract painters in Brazil. In 1951 Mavignier travelled extensively through Europe. Afterwards he settled in Paris. Then he moved to Germany, where he studied at the "Hochschule für Gestaltung" in Ulm as a pupil of Max Bill in the department for visual communication until 1958. In 1954 Mavignier met Josef Albers and he painted his first "Punktbilder".