Lothar Charoux

Lothar Charoux was born in Vienna but moved to Brazil in 1928. From 1948 onwards, he turned his attention to constructivist issues, founding the Grupo Ruptura in 1952 with artistsWaldemar Cordeiro, and Geraldo de Barros. It has been pointed out that Charoux’s participation in the Grupo Ruptura led to a greater level of maturity in the Concrete Art of that period. Charoux’s work often explores optical games, luminosity and movement. During the 1950s he created a series of black drawings in which he explored the opposition of the white line in relation to the black surface. Charoux received the tribute of a retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo and at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro in 1974.