Fausto Pirandello

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Fausto Pirandello (right) with father Luigi (center) and brother Stefano (left), 1931

Fausto Pirandello (born June 17, 1899 in Rome , † November 30, 1975 ibid) was an Italian painter and a representative of the Scuola Romana .

Life

Pirandello was the third and youngest son of the writer Luigi Pirandello and the Maria Antonietta postulant from Agrigento . He spent his childhood in Rome and his holidays in Sicily , a region which aroused his passion for colors and which became the characteristic feature of his painting. In the Pirandello house, the father and brother Stefano (* 1895) already practiced painting as self-taught .

In 1917, Fausto Pirandello was obliged to participate in the war, had to interrupt his studies in antiquity ( gli studi classici ), but did not go to the front for health reasons, but spent the period of the First World War in a hospital in Florence . After the war he continued his studies, in 1918, at the suggestion of his father, he showed a willingness to devote himself to the art of sculpture and went to Ettore Ximenes' studio .

His first art teacher was the symbolist painter and engraver Sigmund Lipinsky , who, following his course in sculpture, gave him lessons in drawing and graphics for a year in 1919. This encounter led to his decision in 1920 to leave the sculpture for good , also for health reasons, since the stone dust irritated his lungs, and to devote himself entirely to painting. The first of his known works are drawings made around 1920 in a vague Art Nouveau style , some etchings from 1921 and the woodcut book titles for " Novellas for a year " by his father, published since 1922 by the Fiorentino Bemporad publishing house in Florence.

In 1922 he registered at the "Orti Sallustiani Art School", opened in Rome by the painters Felice Carena and Orazio Amato (1884–1952 [1]) and the sculptor Attilio Sélva (1888–1970), which he attended until 1923 . There he met the painters Emanuele Cavalli (1904–1981), Onofrio Martinelli (1900–1966) and Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900–1972). Carena and Amato introduced Pirandello to the world of Anticoli Corrado , a village above the Aniene Valley , which was the destination of numerous painters who were looking for picturesque landscapes and models. Pirandello opened his first atelier here in 1924. In the same year he met the sculptor Arturo Martini , artistic collaborator of the American painter and sculptor Maurice Sterne , in the Anticoli Corrado artists' colony . In Anticoli Corrado he also met Pompilia d'Aprile (1898–1977), model of the painters Francesco Trombadori and Amleto Cataldi , whom he married in 1927. With her he had two children, Pierluigi and Antonio.

In 1925 Pirandello had his first public appearance with the work “Bagnanti” (Bathers) at the Terza Biennale Romana and in the following year he took part in the XV Venice Biennale with “Composizione con nudi e pantofole gialle”. Further participation in the Biennale followed continuously from 1932 to 1942.

In February 1928 Pirandello moved to Paris with his wife . They lived in Montparnasse and he took a small studio in Montrouge . On the one hand, the change of location was an attempt to break away from his father's psychological conditioning, and on the other, it was also an opportunity to get new inspiration for his painting. The marriage and the birth of the son were kept secret from his father until 1930. On August 5, 1928, his son Pierluigi was born in the French capital.

In Paris he joined the group of "Italians in Paris", especially Giorgio de Chirico and Filippo De Pisis , and studied the works of Paul Cézanne , the founders of Cubism Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque , representatives of Fauvism André Derain and all the painters of the Paris School , as well as the surrealists exhibited in the city's famous galleries. He had his first exhibition in Paris in December 1928, together with Cavalli and the ceramicist and sculptor Francesco Di Cocco (1900–1989), in the house of the countess and opera singer Maria Castellazzi-Bovy (1890–1965). This was followed by his first major solo exhibition in the Vildrac Gallery in March 1929, followed by an exhibition in Vienna in November.

In 1930 he returned to Rome with his family and took up residence at No. 5 di via Augusto Valenziani. His studio was on the top floor with a view over the roofs of Rome. The family spent the summers in Anticoli Corrado, where his wife still owned a house. In the 1930s he exhibited frequently in the “Galleria di Roma”, in the “Sindacali del Lazio” (Association of Lazio, Region of Latium) and at the Quadriennale di Roma . Pirandello's father Luigi, who had received the Nobel Prize in 1934 , died in December 1936. A month later, on January 18, 1937, Fausto Pirandello's second son Antonio was born in Rome.

In the 1940s, Fausto Pirandello had numerous exhibitions and received awards for his painting in Italy and abroad: first prize in the “II Mostra dello Sport” (1940), solo exhibition in the rooms of the thermal baths of Rome (Mostre d'Arte alle Terme di Roma) (1941) and in the "Galleria Gian Ferrari" in Milan (1942), where he was frequently, and then again in Rome in the "Galleria del Secolo" in 1944 and 1947.

During the Second World War , after Italy entered the war on the side of the German Empire , Pirandello and his family decided to move entirely to Anticoli Corrado in 1942. Thanks to a special permit in 1944, he was given a temporary room in the Villa Medici in Rome in which he could devote himself to his work as a painter. After the war, the exhibition program increased with regular participation in the Quadriennale di Roma , the Venice Biennale and in private galleries, not only in the cities of Rome and Milan. In 1947 he was nominated by the Accademia di San Luca together with Giorgio de Chirico , Ferruccio Ferrazzi (1891–1978) and Tullio Bartoli with the "Accademico Residente", a sign of appreciation.

In the 1950s Pirandello took part in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad and was in his work for example by the art critic Virgilio Guzzi (1902-1978), who showed the first monograph on Pirandello in 1950, Fortunato Belloni , Lionello Venturi , Nello Ponente and Raffaele Carrieri supported. In 1951 he received first prize at the Quadriennale Nazionale d'Arte in Rome, and in 1952 the “Premio Gualino” of the XXVI. Venice Biennale , the “Marzotto Prize” in 1953 and the “Fiorino Prize” in 1957. Pirandello had his first solo exhibition in the United States in 1955 at the Catherine Viviano Gallery in New York City .

For his intense artistic activity, Pirandello was awarded the gold medal for culture and art in 1956 by Giovanni Gronchi , third President of the Republic of Italy. These were the years when Pirandello also devoted himself to writing for art magazines, e.g. B. Quadrivio , La Fiera Letteraria and L'Europa Letteraria , on whose pages he actively participated in the national artistic debate of his era.

In the 1960s, numerous national awards followed for his long career as an artist: in 1960 Pirandello was finally a member of the painters of the Scuola Romana .

Fausto Pirandello died in his hometown of Rome after emphysema .

Works

After a brief experience in Paris, where between 1920 and 1930 he met the most important artistic personalities of the time, Pirandello enters the movement of the Roman School, and distinguishes himself for originality and solitary exploration. His original painting tends towards an everyday realism at times in the blackberries and mercilessly unpleasant aspects of life manifested by themselves through a dense and thorny pictorial symbol. His vision is an intellectualistic one, which translates Yet even the most brutal natural reference point into a kind of magical realism with an archaic and metaphysical taste.

Pirandello's style moves from cubism to tonal, realistic and expressionistic forms: important at this time was his participation in the activities of the literary magazine “Corrente di Vita”. Pirandello's work became an impressive testimony to a poet who interpreted in painting the achievement of the analysis and psychological spirit of his father Luigi.

Pirandello developed his style around the 1950s, re-absorbing the suggestions of the Cubist models ( Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso ) by living the troubled and difficult phase that reached all of Italian painting between Realism and Neocubism, and through the deformations of Expressionist Approach original formal solutions between abstraction and figuration. His work sought a new definition, with a strong reference to a cubist syntax in the color tassellation and in the compositions, in which the narrative reference gradually loses meaning.

He exhibited widely throughout the course of his artistic life, with exhibitions in the various biennials, the Roman Quadriennials, and personal exhibitions in the Galleria della Cometa and Galleria del Secolo. Among those that stood out after World War II are the anthological exhibition in Rome in 1951, the personal exhibition at the Catherine Viviano Gallery in New York in 1955, and the one at the Galleria Nuova Pesa in Rome in 1968.

Fausto Pirandello's works can be seen in museums in Rome , Paris , London , Pittsburgh , São Paulo , Venice , Milan , Monza , Trieste , Pieve di Cento and Palermo .

Selected Works:

  • Composizione con nudi e pantofole gialle , 1923
  • Donne con salamandra , 1930
  • La Scala , 1933
  • Il bagno , 1934
  • La pioggia d'oro , 1934
  • Padre e figlio , 1934
  • Crocifissione laica , 1935
  • Spiaggia affollata , 1939

literature

  • Fausto Pirandello alle Quadriennali del 1935 e del 1939. ed. C. Gian Ferrari, Ed Mondadori Electa, Milano 2010.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Gli anni di Parigi (1928-1931). ed. F. Matitti, Edizioni Artemide, 2009.
  • Fausto Pirandello. catalog exhibition Anticoli Corrado (Roma), 2009.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Catalogo generale. ed. C. Gian Ferrari, Mondadori Electa, Milano 2009.
  • F. Pirandello: Riflessioni sull'arte. ed. C. Gian Ferrari, Abscondita, Milano 2008.
  • Pirandello. Le nature morte. Brescia, catalog Museo di Santa Giulia (Brescia), ed. F. D'Amico - M. Goldin, Cinisello Balsamo, Linea d'ombra libri, Milano 2007.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Sorrento, catalog Museo Correale di Terranova, ed. C. Gian Ferrari, Charter, Milano 2005.
  • Fausto Pirandello: la vita attuale e la favola eterna. with texts by C. Gian Ferrari, M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, B. Marconi, F. Matitti, V. Rivosecchi, Charter, Milano 1999.
  • Fausto Pirandello: bagnanti 1928–1972. with texts by S. Troisi, C. Gian Ferrari (catalog exhibition Marsala 1998), Charter, Milano 1998.
  • Fausto Pirandello. ed. G. Gian Ferrari, with texts by M. Fagiolo, F. Matitti, F. Gualdoni, M. Quesada, catalog exhibition Palazzo Reale Milano 1995, Charter, Milano 1995.
  • Catalogo generale della Galleria comunale d'arte moderna e contemporanea , ed. G. Bonasegale, Roma 1995.
  • Guttuso, Pirandello, Ziveri , Realismo a Roma 1938–1943. Catalog exhibition ed. F. D'Amico, with texts by FR Morelli, Roma 1995.
  • Roma sotto le stelle. Catalog exhibition. Sezione arti visive, ed. N. Vespignani, M. Fagiolo, V. Rivosecchi, collaborators. by I. Montesi, Roma 1994.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Memoria della croce , ed. C. De Carli, 'Quaderno N.1': Catalog exhibition 'Museo d'arte contemporanea dell'Associazione Arte e Spiritualità' Brescia, 1993.
  • C.Gian Ferrari: Fausto Pirandello. De Luca, Roma 1991.
  • Fausto Pirandello: misura e ritmo. Catalog exhibition Milano and Torino 1991, 'Galleria Gian Ferrari' Arte Moderna, 1991.
  • Fausto Pirandello. 1899-1975. catalogo della mostra tenutasi a Palazzo Ricci (Macerata), ed. G. Appella and G. Giuffrè, De Luca Edizioni d'Arte, Roma 1990.
  • Roman School. catalogo della mostra, a cura di M.Fagiolo e V. Rivosecchi, con la collaborazione di FR Morelli, Milano 1988.
  • M. Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Valerio Rivosecchi, Emily Braun: Scuola romana . Artisti tra le due guerre. Ed. Mazzotta, Milano 1988.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Piccole impertinenze. Frammenti di autobiografia e altri scritti. a cura di ML Aguirre D'Amico, Ed. Sellerio, 1987.
  • M. Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Scuola romana: pittura e scultura a Roma dal 1919 al 1943. De Luca, Roma 1986.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Opere scelte. Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milano 1985.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Opere dal 1935 al 1960. catalog exhibition 'Galleria Gian Ferrari' Milano, October 1978.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Opere dal 1923 al 1935. catalog exhibition 'Galleria Gian Ferrari' Milano, October 1977.
  • Fausto Pirandello. Catalog exhibition 'Gallery 63' di New York, November 1962.
  • G. Castelfranco, D. Durbe: La Scuola romana dal 1930 al 1945. De Luca, Roma 1960.
  • Pirandello. di F. Pirandello, Fondazione Premi Roma per le Arti, Roma 1951.
  • V. Guzzi: Fausto Pirandello. De Luca, Roma 1950.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ The Schola Romana (Roman School), also called Scuola di via Cavour , was founded in 1928 by Scipione (painter) , Mario Mafai and Renato Marino Mazzacurati .
  2. ^ "Orti Sallustiani" in the vernacular for the area " Horti Sallustiani ", named after the Roman historian Sallust in Caesar's time and belonged to Prince Barberini. He bought the land for cheap money.
  3. ↑ Illustration (photo): The model Pompilia d'Aprile with her son Pierluigi. Wife of the painter Fausto Pirandello (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Pirandello, Fausto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1975
Place of death Rome , Italy