Alberto da Veiga Guignard

His mother remarried and moved with Alberto to Germany to be with her new husband Louis von Schilgen, a baron.

He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied with Herman Groeber and Adolf Engeler and visited Florence.

[2] After he returned to Brazil in 1929, he became an examplar of Brazilian Modernist painting alongside Candido Portinari, Ismael Nery and Cícero Dias.

[3] He became a mentor to painters such as Iberê Camargo, Vera Mindlin and Alcides da Rocha Miranda.

In August 2015, his painting Vaso de Flores was sold for R$5.7 million, becoming the most expensive work of art by a Brazilian artist ever auctioned.