Prof. Dr. Rafael Cardoso is an art historian and writer, member of the postgraduate faculty in art history at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Instituto de Artes) and research associate at Freie Universität Berlin (Lateinamerika-Institut). He is the author of many books, essays and scholarly articles on the history of art and design in Brazil, 19th and 20th centuries. Over the past decade and a half, he has also delved deeply into the history of his own family’s exile and refuge, particularly that of his great-grandfather Hugo Simon. On that subject, he published the historical novel O Remanescente (Companhia das Letras, 2016), translated into German and Dutch, as well as co-editing the volume Hugo Simon in Berlin (Hentrich & Hentrich, 2018) and contributing essays and interviews to various sources on exile studies. He is chair of the board of the Hugo Simon Stiftung, headquartered in Seelow, Brandenburg, on the estate formerly owned by his great-grandfather.

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• Hugo Simon (1880–1950) (Rafael Cardoso)