The life story of Ernesto Frederico Scheffel: the figurations of an artist in a social ethos focused on labor

the figurations of an artist in a social ethos focused on labor

Abstract

The present work aims to address the life story of the artist from Rio Grande do Sul Ernesto F. Scheffel (1927-2015), based on his own autobiography entitled: “Scheffel by himself” (2013). The aforementioned “life graph” allows a pedagogical approach to the interrelationships between the Visual Arts, Music, Historical Heritage, Environmentalism and other fields of social activity in which the portrayed character acted during his human existence. The geographic (Brazil / Europe) and historical context (development of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century), experienced by the artist, is emblematic in allowing historical knowledge to be created about a social and political scenario that was in constant cultural effervescence during the situation autobiography. We introduce the present manuscript in theoretical dialogues with Arfuch (2010) and conceptual contributions (figuration / configuration / labor / ethos) anchored in Elias (1994), Arendt (2007), Maingueneau (2008) and other important intellectuals. In the sequence, we list, in a dialogical way, the biographical contributions that the life of Ernesto Frederico Scheffel allows to establish in relation to the concepts and theories introduced, and their connection with possible historical and social didactic approaches arising from such dialogue.