Federico Cerruti
Federico Cerruti (born January 1, 1922 in Genoa ; died July 15, 2015 in Turin ) was an Italian art collector.
Life
Francesco Federico Cerruti was born into an entrepreneurial family and trained as an accountant. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Italian Navy. Cerruti expanded his parents' company Legatoria Industriale Torinese into a leading Italian bookbinding company , which, among other things, produced Italian telephone books until the 1990s .
In the 1960s, Cerruti had a villa built for his parents near Rivoli in a Provencal style, which he later only rarely lived in, but which became the place for his art collection.
Cerruti's art collection contains around a thousand objects, including works by the painters Francis Bacon , Giacomo Balla , Ambrogio Borgognone , Umberto Boccioni , Alberto Burri , Giorgio de Chirico , Bernardo Daddi , Agnolo Gaddi , Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky , René Magritte , Joan Miró , Amedeo Modigliani , Giorgio Morandi , Pietro Paolini , Pablo Picasso , Jacopo da Pontormo , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Stefano di Giovanni Sassetta , Gino Severini , Alfred Sisley , Paolo Veneziano , Andy Warhol . He also had rare books including the Atlas Maior of Joan Blaeu in 12 volumes from the 17th century and one of Pierre Legrain (1889-1929) designed edition of À la recherche du temps perdu .
The collection was not public, it was only shown to private visitors; But Cerruti made loans for art exhibitions.
Cerruti created a foundation for his collection that has been managed by the neighboring Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporeana since his death . In May 2019, under the direction of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev , the foundation made parts of the collection in the villa, which was adapted for group tours, accessible to the public.
literature
- Alexander Hosch: Opening a treasury , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 18, 2019, p. 23
Web links
- Scott Reyburn: The Secret Art Collection of a Reclusive Italian Tycoon Is Unveiled , in: NYT, May 6, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cerruti, Federico |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cerruti, Francesco Federico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian art collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th July 2015 |
| Place of death | Turin |