Arquivo
de Peter Scheier, Heloísa Espada
The exhibition is the outcome of a revision of the archive of approximately 35 thousand images by the German photographer Peter Scheier (Germany 1908-1979), taken between the 1940s and 1970s, belonging to the Moreira Salles Institute. Scheier arrived in São Paulo in 1937, fleeing anti-Semitic persecution, where he quickly transformed the hobby of photography into a profession. He created Foto Studio Peter Scheier. The exhibition, curated by Heloisa Espada, highlights Scheier's passage through O Cruzeiro magazine in the 1940s, his records of the birth of institutions such as the São Paulo Museum of Art and the São Paulo Biennial in the 1950s, as well as his collaboration with architects like Rino Levi and Lina Bo Bardi.