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Ismael Nery (October 9, 1900 - April 6, 1934) was a Brazilian artist. Born in Belém, Pará of Dutch, Native-Brazilian and African ancestry [1], he studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (National School of Fine Arts) in Rio de Janeiro and at the Académie Julian in Paris. He created numerous poems and paintings, and also helped design the architecture for Brazil's National Patrimony of the Treasury department. He married a poet, Adalgisa Nery, in 1922. He contracted tuberculosis in 1931, and died of it in 1934.
