The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx was a creative dynamo, as the 240,000 visitors to the New York Botanical Garden’s major show this summer discovered. He was a landscape architect, a ...

Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx Through Sept. 29 at the New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx; 718-817-8700, nybg.org.

The exhibit, Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, is open through September 29, 2019, and is included with admission to the Botanical Gardens.

The Brazilian modernist Roberto Burle Marx liked to tell the story of his arrival in Berlin in the late 1920s as a young man, in the German capital to steep himself in European culture.

Roberto Burle Marx may not be a household name, but he's one of three modernists who helped remake Brazil in 20th century. Among his projects: Avenidea Atlantica, running along Copacabana Beach.

Born in São Paulo in 1909 to a Brazilian mother and a German father, Roberto Burle Marx (distant cousin of Karl) was a self-taught botanist and trained painter. Fusing a deep reverence for nature with ...

Over his 60-year career, Roberto Burle Marx established himself as a key figure in South American Modernism by designing more than 2,000 gardens and landscapes around the world for private residences, ...

The show’s curators, Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson, have gathered a wealth of rare original material by Burle Marx, including drawings, paintings, plans, models, and a nearly 90-foot-long ...

About This Lot Born in Sao Paulo in 1909, Roberto Burle-Marx returned to Brazil after studying painting in Germany, continuing his studies and eventually earning his degree in painting from the ...

About This Lot Fine lines web over grayscale planes of light in this work by Roberto Burle-Marx. Known for his prolific contributions to landscape architecture, Burle-Marx bridged the worlds of ...

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