respected and influential art teacher in the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes. He died on February 15, 1961, alone in his small apartment in Rio. Goeldi's work has been exposed posthumously in more than a hundred expositions in Brazil, Argentina, France, Portugal, Switzerland and Spain. Quote Each trace is a piece of nerve with the vehemence of a barbarian heart ("Cada traço é um pedaço de nervo com a veemência de um coração bárbaro") - about his own work. After his death several posthumous exhibitions have been performed with his works. Goeldi's Project was created and all collections and photographic files have been indexed in Goeldi Institute. References External links Institution Official site. Associação Artística Cultural Oswaldo Goeldi (In Portuguese). Official site. Projeto Goeldi (In Portuguese). 1895 births 1961 deaths 20th-century engravers Brazilian engravers Modern printmakers Brazilian people of Swiss-German descent