Alexander Giampietro

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Alexander Giampietro (born December 5, 1912 in Marsicovetere , Potenza , Italy , † January 6, 2010 in New Haven , Connecticut , USA ) was an Italian-American sculptor.

Life

Alexander Giampietro came to Brooklyn , NY at the age of fifteen. After attending Brooklyn College, he studied art in New York and the New Bauhaus in Chicago with László Moholy-Nagy in the 1930s . In 1946 he completed a master's degree from Alfred University in Alfred in New York . He initially taught at Brooklyn College and a private school in Massachusetts. From 1948 he taught at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Washington, DC In 1950 he moved to the Catholic University of America and was professor of sculpture and ceramics. In 1992 he retired.

Giampietro worked in his own studio until 2007. His work is represented in all major museums around the world, such as the Vatican Museums , New York's Museum of Modern Art , the Smithsonian Institution and the Catholic University of America in Washington.

He was engaged in the Society of Washington Artists and represented the Catholic US universities in the American Association of University Professors. He was married to Daphne Phillips Giampietro and had eleven children.

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