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Arturo Umberto Samuele Schwarz (born February 3, 1924 in Alexandria , Egypt , † June 23, 2021 in Milan ) was an Italian art historian , poet, writer, art collector and curator of international art exhibitions who lived in Milan. He gave the Catalog raisonné of Marcel Duchamp out. In the 1950s he also published under the pseudonym Tristan Sauvage . From 1961 to 1975 he ran the Galleria Schwarz art gallery in Milan.

Live and act

Arturo Schwarz was the son of the German Richard Schwarz and the Italian Rita Schwarz. The family had Jewish roots. His German relatives were deported from Düsseldorf during the Nazi era and killed. Schwarz studied at the American University in Cairo and received a diploma in 1942; from 1943 to 1944 he continued his studies at Farouk I University with a medical degree. In 1946 he was a co-founder of the Egyptian branch of the Trotskyist 4th International . He was arrested for his political activities, released in 1949 and moved to Milan , Italy. In 1951 he married Vera Zavatarelli († 1984), their daughter is Silvia Schwarz.

From 1952 to 1959 Schwarz ran a small publishing house in which he published, for example, writings on André Breton , Albert Einstein , Daniel Guérin , Maurice Nadeau , Benjamin Péret and Leon Trotsky . From 1954 he exhibited there mainly works by Dadaist and Surrealist artists. In 1961 he founded the Galleria Schwarz art gallery , which existed until 1975. Afterwards he worked only as a writer and devoted himself to research. He has written or edited a good fifty books.

Israel Hershberg : Smoked Fish on a Grinding Slab , painting 1992, oil on linen. Israel Museum, from The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art

In 1998, Schwarz donated the more than 700-piece collection of Dadaist and Surrealist art to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel . In 1972 the museum had already received 13 replicas of Duchamp's ready-mades , followed in 1991 by its Arturo Schwarz Dada and Surrealist Library . Among the replicas donated are, for example, Fountain and LHOOQ. In April 2003, the museum received another donation of 17 Surrealist and Dadaist works.

In October 2009, Schwarz curated an exhibition Dada e surrealismo riscoperti (Dada and surrealism rediscovered) at Vittoriano in Rome, with over 500 works and a specially written catalog contribution.

Schwarz's extensive collection of Dada and Surrealism art includes many works by personal friends such as Marcel Duchamp , André Breton , Man Ray and Hans Arp . In the 1977 book about Man Ray's work and life, he first revealed Ray's real name Emmanuel Radnitzky. In addition to his writings on Marcel Duchamp, Surrealism and Dadaism , Schwarz is also known for publications on Kabbalah , Tantrism , alchemy , prehistoric and tribal art as well as the art and philosophy of Asia.

Schwarz called himself an atheist anarchist and a Jew in his autobiographical work published in 2007.

Awards

  • 1996: Awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Tel Aviv University
  • 1998: Diploma di Prima Classe con Medaglia d'oro ai Benemeriti della Cultura e dell'Arte , awarded by the President of the Italian Republic
  • 2006: Premio Frascati for his collected works of poetry (1946–2007)

Publications (selection)

  • Tristan Sauvage: En cléf de ré si voeux . Schwarz Editore, Milan 1954
  • Tristan Sauvage: Birolli et la mer . Schwarz Editore, Milan 1956
  • Limited edition by Pierre de Massot's Marcel Duchamp, propos et souvenirs with 38 replicas by LHOOQ Galleria Schwarz, Milan 1964
  • As editor: The complete Works of Marcel Duchamp . Thames and Hudson, London 1969; The complete works of Marcel Duchamp . Revised and Expanded Paperback Edition. With 1222 Illustrations, 222 in color. Two volumes in one volume. Delano Greenidge Editions, New York 2000, ISBN 0-929445-06-6
  • Marcel Duchamp: Sixty-six Creative Years; From the first painting to the last drawing . Galleria Schwarz, Milan 1972
  • New York Dada: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia . Prestel, Munich 1973
  • Almanacco dada: Antologia letteraria-artistica, cronologia e repertorio delle riviste . Feltrinelli, Milan 1976
  • Man Ray: The Rigor of Imagination . Rizzoli International, New York 1977
    • German: Man Ray . Translated from the Italian by Benjamin Schwarz. Rogner and Bernhard, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-8077-0115-X
  • André Breton, Trotsky, et l'anarchie . Union Generale d'Editions, Paris 1977
  • Arte e alchimia , XLII Biennale di Venezia Arte e Scienza . Ed. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice 1986
  • Hinged tail. Presentation by Arturo Schwarz. With contributions by André Breton, Annie Le Brun, Werner Schmalenbach . Gabrius, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-8484-102-X
  • Tutte le poesie, quasi (1941–2007) . Moretti & Vitali, Bergamo 2007, ISBN 978-88-7186-343-6
  • Sono ebreo, so. Riflessioni di un ateo anarchico. Preface by Giuseppe Laras. Garzanti, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-11-60052-7
  • Alik cavaliere. Poeta, filosofo, umanista e scultore, anche (quasi una biografia) . Mondadori Electa, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-370-6664-2
  • Dada e Surrealismo riscoperti , Skira, 2009
  • Una poesia per ogni giorno della settimana di Linda . Mudima, 2011
  • Arturo black. La poesia prima di tutto. Una vita nell'arte / Arturo Black. Poetry above. A life in art , Marsilio, 2012
  • Il surrealismo. Ieri e oggi, Skira, 2014

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1959: Mostra Internazionale del Surrealismo , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1960: Konrad Klapheck , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1961: Daniel Spoerri (first solo exhibition), Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1964: Myriam Bat-Yosef , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1968: Habbah , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1969: Wolf Vostell , Galleria Schwarz, Milan
  • 1989: The Surrealists , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
  • 2000: Dreaming with Open Eyes. The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art , Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 2002: Max Ernst ei suoi amici surrealisti , Museo del Corso, Rome
  • 2009: Dada e surrealismo riscoperti , Vittoriano , Rome

Web links

Commons : Arturo Schwarz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Santa Nastro: Morto Arturo Black. Gallerista, storico dell'arte, saggista. In: artribune.com. June 24, 2021, accessed June 24, 2021 (Italian).
  2. ^ Arturo Schwarz: Klapheck. Presentation by Arturo Schwarz. With contributions by André Breton, Annie Le Brun, Werner Schmalenbach . Milano: Gabrius, 2002, p. 5
  3. ^ Arturo Schwarz ( memento of January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), engagingnews.us, accessed on January 11, 2013
  4. ↑ Quoted from Schwarz's website
  5. ↑ Paola Decina Lombardi: "E 'surreale la via della libertà" , in: La Stampa , December 12, 2008
  6. ↑ The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealism , imj.org.il, accessed January 10, 2013
  7. ↑ LHOOQ 1919/1964 ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), english.imjnet.org, accessed on January 12, 2013
  8. ^ Arturo Schwarz, ebreo, anche , at Mosaico, Milan, March 19, 2007 (it)
  9. ↑ Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte , at Quirinal
personal data
SURNAME Black, Arturo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwarz, Arturo Umberto Samuele (full name); Tristan Sauvage (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian author, curator, collector and art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Milan