Edmondo Dobrzanski

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Edmondo Dobrzanski (born August 2, 1914 in Zug , † August 23, 1997 in Lugano ) was a Swiss painter , draftsman and graphic artist .

Life

Dobrzanski came from Fischenthal . He was a son of the traveling photographer Stanislaus Dobrzanski and his wife Elena. The maternal branch has Greek and Trieste-Spanish roots, the paternal branch of the family is of Russian-Polish origin. Edmondo married Onorina Volpato. From 1922 to 1929 the family lived in Lugano in the Cassarate district , where Dobrzanski attended schools, and from 1929 to 1934 in Diessenhofen and Stein am Rhein . Dobrzanski trained as a photographer in his father's studio.

After studying at the Academy of Brera (Milan), where he was a student of Aldo Carpi from 1936 to 1942 , he worked in Zurich as an illustrator for popular law from 1942 to 1950 . From 1950 he lived in Ticino in Bellinzona , Bissone , the Cassarate spinning mill and in Gentilino . In 1958 Virgilio Gilardoni organized a retrospective, in the 1960s Dobrzanski exhibited in Switzerland and Italy.

The artist combined the expressionist theme with the informal style. As a painter of the human condition , he portrayed marginalized people such as madmen, prostitutes and black migrants. He campaigned for the realization of political and social demands and carefully followed the role of science, which he saw threatened by abuse.

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  1. ^ Matteo Bianchi: Edmondo Dobrzanski. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 27, 2004 , accessed October 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dobrzanski, Edmondo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, draftsman and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH train
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1997
Place of death Lugano