Egidio Marzona

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Egidio Marzona (* 1944 in Bielefeld ) is a German-Italian gallery owner , art collector , patron and publisher . His collection is considered to be the largest and most important art collection on the avant-garde of the 20th century worldwide.

life and work

Egidio Marzona's grandfather immigrated to Germany from Friuli in northeastern Italy around 1900 and built ship lifts here; Marzona's father owned a concrete factory. Marzona herself worked as a gallery owner and publisher. Since 1968 he has been collecting works from Arte Povera , minimalism and concept art. In addition, he created an archive of around 40,000 letters, photographs, drafts, magazines and catalogs. In 1972 he founded a gallery in Bielefeld and became involved in the Bielefelder Kunstverein . In 2002 he sold 700 works for a third of their market value to the State Museums , specifically the National Gallery, the Kupferstichkabinett and the Art Library; In 2014 a further 372 works went to the Nationalgalerie.

Marzona lives temporarily in Berlin and Italy in his Villa de Verzegnis in Friuli. Here he exhibits free-of-charge contemporary art in an open-air museum all year round . The exhibition is part of the museum system of Carnia .

Archive of the Avant-gardes (AdA)

The “Archive of the Avant-gardes” (AdA) of the 20th century, which Marzona has compiled, including design objects, furniture and glass objects, is looked after by the Dresden State Art Collections . Since October 10, 2017, it has been presented in an interim in the Japanese Palace in Dresden. It is to have its own location in the neighboring log house and open in 2023.

The collection includes works by Bruce Nauman , Lawrence Weiner , Richard Serra , Richard Nonas , Dan Graham , Jannis Kounellis , Mario Merz and Richard Long .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christiane Habermalz: loss to Berlin. deutschlandradiokultur.de , July 20, 2016, accessed on July 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ Press: Archives of the Avant-gardes. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, October 9, 2017, accessed on October 10, 2017 .