Andrea Robbi

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Andrea Robbi (* 1864 ; † 1945 in Samedan ) was a Swiss painter .

Life

Andrea Robbis parents from Sils in the Engadine and Davos had in the Italian cities of Carrara and Saluzzo as confectioners worked. He spent the first years of his life there in Tuscany , he attended primary school in Sils and later the canton school in Chur . His younger sister as well as his older brother died in childhood.

Academic years

Robbi studied - together with Giovanni Giacometti - from October 1887 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Karl Raupp , presumably before that at the Art Academy in Dresden , from 1888 to 1891 at the Académie Julian in Paris , and from the beginning of March 1891 in Rome with a stay in the Villa Strohl-Fern . Later, from October 1895 until at least February of the following year , he copied old masters in Milan . He also enjoyed a brief training with Barthélemy Menn in Geneva . He went on study trips through Germany , Austria-Hungary , France and Italy. He was considered a worldly and talented man.

retreat

The death of his father in 1898 seems to have hit Robbi hard. He retired to the seclusion of his parents' house in Sper l'Ovetta in Sils, where he lived with his mother. What made Robbi withdraw from painting and into complete loneliness in the darkened parental home is not completely clear. It may have been the sudden death of the father, rejection of his pictures at an exhibition, a friend by his strict mother, or something of everything. After his mother's death in 1907, he lived the rest of his life in darkness in Sper l'Ovetta . The shutters were always closed; only a few candles gave sparse light, as contemporary witnesses remember who, as children, brought a basket of food every few days on behalf of Robbi's guardian, who managed the property. He only went out occasionally at night, did a few laps, and withdrew into his own world.

In 1945, at the age of 80, he died impoverished, neglected and alone, after he had been found in his house the day before and had been brought to the hospital, very hypothermic. He hadn't sold a single painting in his life.

plant

The Chesa Fonio in Sils i. E./Segl, in the u. a. the Andrea Robbi Museum is housed

Andrea Robbi only painted ten years of his life. Most of his pictures date from before 1898. In Sils, a museum in the Chesa Fonio was named after him, which exhibits his works. A foundation takes care of his estate and the preservation of the museum.

literature

  • Giuliano Pedretti: From the light into the night: Andrea Robbi, 1864-1945 . Aarau, 2002: Sauerländer. ISBN 3-0345-0002-5
  • Dora Lardelli: Andrea Robbi, 1864–1945: Exhibition in the Segantini Museum St. Moritz, July 6 to October 20, 1988 . St. Moritz, 1988.

Web links

Commons : Andrea Robbi  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bündner Anzeiger 6/2009, February 11, 2009, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Albert Zacher: In the Villa Strohl-Fern , Frankfurter Zeitung , from June 8, 1895. Text excerpt: “The first gate that forms the entrance to the studio of the young Swiss painter R obbi is unfortunately locked, the gentleman has gone out, but on the second it is opened. "
  3. ↑ a b Graubünden Culture (October 11, 2011).
  4. ↑ Kulturzeit broadcast on February 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Robbi, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Samedan