Skinny

Sculpture master Francisco Stockinger gained notoriety for representing the human body in different aspects under an expressionist bias. If in the series of sculptures of the "homens-gabirus" ("gabirus-men"), beings that sneak like rats in the cities in search of remains, the artist shows people of short stature due to malnutrition; in the series called “Magrinhas” ("Skinny), he shows another aspect of life, if not life itself, represented in the female and, therefore, maternal figure, which engenders and nourishes existence. Francisco Stockinger was born in Traun (Austria) in 1919. He migrated to Brazil in 1921, settling in São Paulo (SP) and in 1937 in Rio de Janeiro (RJ). In that city, he studied in 1946 at the High School of Arts and Crafts and was a student for three years under Bruno Giorgi (1905-1993). The artist moved to Porto Alegre (RS) in 1954, where he initially worked with woodcut and diagramming for a newspaper. In 1961 he founded the atelier Livre of the Porto Alegre City Hall, being its first director. Among his public sculptures are that of Quito, Ecuador and the work Homenagem a Vasco Prado (Tribute to Vasco Prado), in Porto Alegre. He died in Porto Alegre in 2009, recognized as a national reference in sculpture and master of generations of sculptors, including from Paraná.