Antonio Calderara
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
- 1948 Venice Biennale
- 1956 Venice Biennale : Mia Figlia, Mia Madre, Il Corsetto Rosso , each drawing (Disegno), 1955
- 1960 Ingeborg and Kurt Fried's Studio F in Ulm . First exhibition in Germany.
- 1960 50 years of concrete art in Zurich
- 1968 Antonio Calderara , Kestnergesellschaft Hanover
- 1968 4th documenta in Kassel
- 1969 Antonio Calderara , Lucerne Art Museum
- 1969 Antonio Calderara , cabinet for contemporary art in Bremerhaven
- 1972 Antonio Calderara: Pictures, watercolors and graphics , Badischer Kunstverein , Baden-Baden
- 1971 Antonio Calderara, watercolors 1947–1970 , Galerie im Taxispalais , Innsbruck
- 2003 State Graphic Collection Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich (homage to the 100th birthday)
- 2011 Antonio Calderara , Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch (curator: Andreas Bee )
- 2017 Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Antonio Calderara (1903–1978))
- 2018 Ernst Barlach House Antonio Calderara, light rooms. Painting from fifty years , Hamburg
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
- Literature by and about Antonio Calderara in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Antonio Calderara in the documenta archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Fondazione Calderara per l'Arte Contemporanea
- ^ Website Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
- ^ Art: art edition March-April ISSN 1866-542X p. 16
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calderara, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abbiategrasso near Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1978 |
| Place of death | Vacciago , Lake Orta , Italy |