Amerigo dead

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Gravestone on the Farkasréti temető in Budapest (sculptor Miklós Melocco )

Amerigo Tot (born Imre Tóth September 27, 1909 in Fehérvárcsurgó , Austria-Hungary ; died December 13, 1984 in Rome ) was a Hungarian sculptor. Tot lived in Rome most of his life.

Life

Imre Tóth studied from 1926 to 1928 in Budapest with Ferenc Helbing and György Leszkovszky at the art school and from 1931 to 1932 at the Bauhaus in Dessau and Berlin. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he fled from Dresden on foot to Rome, where he received a scholarship at the Collegium Hungaricum . He kept himself afloat with odd jobs as a painter, etcher and also as a sculptor. His design for a monument to Skanderbeg in Piazza Albania in Rome was, however, carried out by Romano Romanelli . After Mussolini's fall in 1943, he was active on the part of the Resistance and trained as a paratrooper . During this time he Italianized his name.

After the war he also worked as an artistic consultant in Italy. He received his first international recognition for his relief on the facade of the Roma Termini train station , which can still be seen today. In addition to traditional work, u. a. a Madonna sculpture in his hometown, he created abstract sculptures such as “Microcosm in Macrocosm”. In 1952 he took part for the first time in the Biennale di Venezia in the Italian pavilion, also in 1956 and 1962, in 1958 he was represented at the world exhibition in Brussels . In 1954 he left the Italian Communist Party . In 1962 he wrote a libretto for a ballet for the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto . He won the competition for a monument to the Bandiera brothers near Rovito , which was erected in 1972. He visited Hungary several times - now as a courted international artist - where exhibitions were organized for him. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he had occasional supporting roles in feature films, such as Der Pate II ; La moglie più bella ; La califfa ; Scusi, facciamo l'amore? ; Satyricon II and Pulp .

The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze elected him a member in 1978 and the Hungarian state awarded him in 1979 the medal “Banner of the People's Republic of Hungary”. There are also sculptures by him in Gödöllő and one in memory of Béla Bartók in Kecskemét .

His studio in Budapest is now used by the Koller Gallery , which has also set up a small museum.

Illustrations

literature

  • Sinkovits P. (1982): Az érintések öröme. (The joy of touch.) Report with Amerigo Tot. Művészet , XXIII, No. 7. p. 10-14. (In Hungarian)
  • Nagy Z. (1982): Szemelvények egy életműből. (Section of an ouvre.) Amerigo Tot exhibition at Vigadó Galéria , Budapest. Művészet, XXIII, No. 7. p. 14-19. (In Hungarian )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antal Szerb refers to Tóth's arrival in Rome in his novel Journey in the Moonlight (1937).
personal data
SURNAME Dead, Amerigo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tóth, Imre (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian sculptor and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Fehérvárcsurgó , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1984
Place of death Rome