The Jewish Museum presents Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) was one of the most influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, yet he is not a familiar figure outside of his native Brazil. He is best known for his iconic seaside pavements on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach, and the abstract, geometric garden designs. But his work encompasses an enormous range of artistic forms and styles: Berle Marx was a painter and sculptor; a designer of textiles, jewelry, theater sets, and costumes; a ceramicist and stained-glass artist. Son of a German Jewish father and Brazilian Catholic mother, he viewed the role of the landscape architect in ideal terms: to migrate the loss of primeval garden and repair the rift between humanity and nature.

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