Carlo Bugatti

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Salon furniture by Carlo Bugatti around 1885, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, added in 2009

Carlo Bugatti (born February 16, 1856 in Milan , † March 31, 1940 in Molsheim , Alsace ) was an Italian designer , decorator and architect . He was the brother of Luigia Bugatti, who had been the wife of his friend, fellow student and painter Giovanni Segantini since 1880 . He also had a friendship with the composer Giacomo Puccini .

Training and beginnings

The son of the architect and sculptor Giovanni Luigi Bugatti studied architecture at the Milan Accademia di Brera and from 1875 at the Paris Académie des Beaux-Arts . In 1880 he married Teresa Lorioli and began his professional career in Milan as an architect, but later devoted himself to furniture design, which soon made him famous. Until 1904 he had a workshop at Via Castelfiardo 6 in Milan.

Art style

With his personal variant of Art Nouveau , he created very idiosyncratic and extravagant furniture, which mostly remained unique pieces. Later, simpler furniture was also mass-produced.

Bugatti's artistic works were inspired by Asian, especially Turkish and Japanese, ornaments and characters. His style, influenced by the new art, differed in the use of:

Exhibitions

The first exhibition of Bugatti furniture took place in 1888 at the Milan art industry fair. In the summer of the same year, she participated in the first international exhibition, the Italian Exhibition in London . Bugatti had its first success outside of Italy on it, as its furniture won an honorary award there. His furniture in the "Bugatti" style became internationally known - e. For example, the “Turkish Salon” at the Waldorf Hotel in New York was furnished with Bugatti furniture.

This was followed by further exhibitions in Amsterdam and Antwerp as well as reports in international magazines, which further strengthened his reputation. He was represented at many international exhibitions and won numerous important prizes. In 1900 Bugatti took part in the Paris 1900 World Exhibition in Paris and won a silver medal for its furniture. In 1902 he triumphed in Turin at the International Exhibition of Decorative Modern Art . His 1902 women's desk with chair is covered with parchment and sheet copper as extraordinary materials.

Retirement

In 1904, at the age of 48, Carlo Bugatti sold his studio in Milan and moved to Paris . There he worked for the department stores Grands Magasins Dufayel and Le Bon Marché , created silver vessels and bronze utensils and turned more to painting . After only 6 years, in 1910, he retired to Pierrefonds near Compiègne . He set up his own studio again and was even mayor of Pierrefonds from 1914 to 1918. In 1937, two years after the death of his wife, the now 81-year-old Carlo Bugatti moved to Molsheim in Alsace with his son Ettore , who had built his factory there.

family

He and his wife, Teresa Lorioli, had three children: Deanice Bugatti (1883–1932), Ettore Bugatti (1881–1947), vehicle designer and entrepreneur ( Bugatti ), and Rembrandt Bugatti (1885–1916), animal sculptor.

Carlo also envisaged an artistic career for his two sons. However, only Rembrandt took this path; Ettore began to study art in Milan, but after the advice of a family friend, Dominique Lumberjack , switched to the Milan-based car maker Prinetti & Stucchi in 1897 . Carlos' signature was still required in 1902 when Ettore, who was not yet of legal age, received an employment contract as chief engineer at De Dietrich .

literature

  • Hermann Sturm: Unusual beauty: Carlo Bugatti, exoticism, designs of the diverse. Anabas, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 9783870383688 .
  • In short, Joachim: Bugatti. The Myth - The Family - The Company ; Econ-Verlag (Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH), Berlin, ISBN 3-43015809-5
  • Griffith Borgeson: Bugatti by Borgeson - The dynamics of mythology (1981), Osprey Publishing Limited, London ISBN 0-85045-414-X (English)

Web links

Commons : Carlo Bugatti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In short: Bugatti. The Myth - The Family - The Company , p. 312.
  2. ↑ In short: Bugatti. The Myth - The Family - The Company , p. 313.
personal data
SURNAME Bugatti, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian designer, decorator and architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1940
Place of death Molsheim