Carla Fioravanti

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Carla Fioravanti , married Fioravanti-Heise (born May 17, 1933 in Civitanova , died October 15, 2019 in Berlin ), was an Italian painter .

Life

Carla Fioravanti studied from 1953 to 1955 at the Accademia di belle arti di Bologna with Giorgio Morandi and passed her state examination in Rome in 1957 . There she worked on the restoration of frescoes in Roman churches and has been working as a freelance painter ever since. She had her first two solo exhibitions in Italy, one of them in the house where Gioachino Rossini was born . In 1961 she married.

In the mid-1960s she came to Germany, first lived in Düsseldorf and then moved with her husband to Berlin in 1972 , where she also taught art education at the Salvator School and attended lectures at the Academy of Arts as a guest student . In Germany she had her first solo exhibition in 1970 at the Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss . In 1972 she painted her first series of theater pictures, Divided Berlin Impressions , which she continued in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall with the series Commedia dell'Arte - Berlin between the Powers . In cooperation with the Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel , the project Romanticism in the River was created in 2001 , an examination of German Romanticism .

Works by the artist have been shown in numerous solo and traveling exhibitions as well as in group exhibitions and art events in Italy, Germany, 1993 in Scotland and 2000 in Holland . Your Potsdamer-Platz trilogy , created in 1993, is in the collection of the broadcaster Free Berlin or, since its merger with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg in 2003, in the collection of Rundfunks Berlin-Brandenburg .

Fioravanti was a member of the Association of Berlin Artists and the Association of Berlin Artists (VBK). She had two sons.

Honors

  • 1979: Merit medal at the III. Biennale in San Leo
  • 1981: Bronze medal of the Montefeltro Grand Prix
  • 1982: Cup of the City of Modena
  • 1992: Benninghaus Prize of the Association of Berlin Artists
  • 2009: Sponsorship award from the Werner Viktor Toeffling Foundation, Berlin
  • 2010: Award of the picture “Potsdamer Platz” in the competition of the Werner Viktor Toeffling Foundation

literature

Web links

Commons : Carla Fioravanti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries of Carla Fioravanti | Tagesspiegel mourning. Retrieved October 25, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Emilio Esbardo: Storia di una metropoli: i quadri di Carla Fioravanti raccontano Berlino - La nostra intervista alla pittrice (Italian), il Nuovo Berlinese, accessed on September 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Prize winner , Association of Berlin Artists.
personal data
SURNAME Fioravanti, Carla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fioravanti-Heise, Carla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Civitanova , brands
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 2019
Place of death Berlin