Athos Bulcão

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Athos Bulcao (Rio de Janeiro, 1918), is a Brazilian painter and sculptor.

By the 1940's, he assisted Candido Portinari with the "Sao Francisco de Assis" painting at the Pampulha Church, in Belo Horizonte. Further, he moved to Paris, where he lives until 1949. Back in Brazil, he became one of the collaborators of the construction of Brasilia, participating in several projects from the artist Oscar Niemeyer. By 1958, he finally moved to the new Brazilian capital, where he still lives nowadays.