Enrico Butti

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Enrico Butti

Enrico Butti (born April 3, 1847 in Viggiù ; † January 31, 1932 there ) was an Italian sculptor and painter .

Life

Butti was born on April 3, 1847 to the married couple Bernardo and Anna Giudici. He moved to Milan in 1861 to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera , where he took courses with Pietro Magni . During the years of the Scapigliatura , he exhibited one of his first works at the Mostra Nazionale in 1872 , the marble figure of Raffaello Sanzio . In 1874 he also exhibited the figure of Eleonora d'Este in the Palazzo Brera (Palace of Brera) in the Brera district of Milan , which is now in Saint Petersburg . Other works were Caino , Le smorfie, Stizze , San Gerolamo (1875), Il mio garzone and Santa Rosa da Lima (1876), which is now in the Milan Cathedral . The figure of L'angelo dell'evocazione was created for the Cavi-Bussi tomb in the Milan cemetery , he also created the monument to Alberto da Giussano in Legnano , the figure of General Giuseppe Sirtori , located in the public gardens of Milan, and the figure La morente (1891) for a tomb.

The sculpture Il minatore ( Eng : The Miner) was first exhibited in Brera in 1888 and was initially controversial because of its socially critical undertone, but it received a "Grand Prix" at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 and was later awarded several times. Several copies of this figure were made in cast bronze, including one for the tomb of the Düsseldorf industrialist family von Gahlen in the Düsseldorf North Cemetery .

From 1893 to 1913 Butti was a lecturer in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera . In 1913 he created the figure of Giuseppe Verdi, located in the Piazza Michelangelo Buonarroti in Milan. From 1928 Butti devoted himself to painting. He died on January 31, 1932 in his villa in Viggiù, whose park now houses the Butti Museum.

  • Monument to Giuseppe Sirtori, Milan

  • Monument to Giuseppe Verdi, Milan

  • Tomb for the Besenzanica family (“L'isha”), Milan

  • Tomb for Sonia Kaliensky, San Michele cemetery in Venice

  • Tomb for the Cavi Bussi family (“Angelo dell'evocazione”), Milan

  • Monument to Alberto da Giussano, Legnano

  • Sculpture “Der Bergmann” on the tomb of the von Gahlen family, Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf

Museums

Museums showing works by Butti:

In 1926, Butti bequeathed a collection of 87 plaster figures and some of his paintings to the municipality of Viggiù.

literature

Web links

Commons : Enrico Butti  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Short biography on the website www.scultura-italiana.com (by Francesco Locatelli; Italian), last accessed on July 17, 2011
  • Short biography on the website I Quaderni Viggiutesi (by Gibi Franzi; Italian), last accessed on July 17, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 65 (Figure 33).
personal data
SURNAME Butti, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Viggiu
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1932
Place of death Viggiu