Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art

The Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art (in Portuguese: Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli - MARGS) is an art museum in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. It is located in the centre of Porto Alegre. Its eclectic building, national heritage, is one of the most noteworthy historic buildings in Porto Alegre. Its design is usually attributed to Theodor Wiederspahn, a German-Brazilian architect, although important local historian and artist Fernando Corona ascribes it to Germano Gundlach. History The museum was formally created by the state government through Decree 5065 , in 1954, without any seat or collection. Soon afterwards the state Secretary of Culture, José Mariano de Freitas Beck, invited Ado Malagoli , a renowned painter born in São Paulo who had just arrived in Porto Alegre in order to teach at the Institute of Fine Arts, to lead the organization and establishment of the museum. Malagoli started gathering some paintings dispersed among the state institutions and, provided with funds, purchased other pieces in São Paulo, mainly of stars of Brazilian. Collections The museum currently houses a collection of over 2,600 objects of nearly all kinds of visual arts. The collection's core is formed by art from Rio Grande do Sul, being specially important the paintings and works on paper . Major local artists in the collection are Iberê Camargo , Pedro Weingärtner , Vasco Prado , José Lutzenberger , Carlos Petrucci , Luiz Maristany de Trias , João Fahrion , Ado Malagoli , Glênio Bianchetti , Carlos Scliar and Libindo Ferrás . There is also a little but interesting collection of Brazilian art , with.