Ismael Nery

Nery was born in 1900 in Belém, Pará, of Dutch, Native-Brazilian, and African ancestry.

Back in Brazil, he worked in the architecture section of the National Heritage service at the Ministry of Finance, where he became friends with the poet Murilo Mendes.

Nery created numerous paintings, wrote many poems and also helped design Brazil's National Patrimony of the Treasury department.

[2] That same year 1929, after a trip to Argentina and Uruguay, a diagnosis revealed that he was carrying tuberculosis.

He died in 1934, at the age of thirty-three, in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when his notoriety beyond the circle of connoisseurs was still nascent.

[3] Ismael Nery's work was forgotten by the public and critics until the 1960s, when his name was inscribed on the Biennale of São Paulo, In the room devoted to surrealism and fantastic art.