Antonio Calderara

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Antonio Calderara (born October 28, 1903 in Abbiategrasso near Milan , † June 27, 1978 in Vacciago , Lago d'Orta ) was a modern, non-representational Italian painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Calderara studied engineering at the Polytechnic in Milan from 1923 to 1924 . Due to his passion for painting, he dropped out of his studies. He then lived in Milan and in Vacciago on Lake Orta , where most of his landscape paintings were created. As a painter he was self-taught . The most important artistic stimuli he received during this time from the pictures of Piero della Francesca , as well as the artists Kasimir Malewitsch , Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers .

Calderara had his first exhibition in 1934 at Galeria Bolaffi in Milan. 1948 and 1956 he participated in the Biennale in Venice in part. In 1959 he created his first non-figurative picture. Calderara no longer used curved lines and limited himself to flat squares, right angles and stripes, which gained expressiveness through the use of a few colors. In 1960 there was a momentous encounter with Almir Mavignier , which enabled him to participate in an exhibition in Germany in Studio F in Ulm . Antonio Calderara was invited to the 4th documenta in Kassel in 1968 . Calderara also transferred his panel paintings and watercolors to serigraphy , or had them transferred to this technique by printers.

Calderara died at the age of 75 in 1978 in Vacciago on Lake Orta . There is also the seat of the Fondazione Calderara per l'Arte Contemporanea - the Antonio Calderara Foundation for contemporary art, which shows changing exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Works in museums

literature

  • Wieland Schmied (Ed.): Antonio Calderara . Exhibition catalog Kestner Society, Hanover 1968.
  • Michael Semff (Ed.): Antonio Calderara. Homage to the 100th birthday , exhibition catalog State Graphic Collection Munich, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Fondazione Calderara per l'Arte Contemporanea
  2. ^ Website Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
  3. ^ Art: art edition March-April ISSN  1866-542X p. 16