Felice Filippini

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Felice Filippini (born June 20, 1917 in Arbedo , † September 9, 1988 in Muzzano ) was a Swiss writer and painter.

Life

Felice Filippini was the son of the mechanic Agostino Filippi and his wife Rosa (nee Menghetti).

In 1933 he studied for a short time at the Technikum in Freiburg and from 1934 to 1937 he attended the teachers' seminar in Locarno ; then he worked as a writer and painter.

In 1938 he started working as an archivist at Radio Monteceneri for the public service broadcaster and from 1945 to 1969 was director of the word department of Radio della Svizzera italiana.

Felice Filippini was married to the pianist Dafne (née Salati) (1916–2012) since 1940 . Together they had two children who both became musicians:

  • Rocco Filippini (* 1943), cellist;
  • Saskia Filippini (* 1946), violinist.

Writing

His most important work, the novel Signore dei poveri morti (in the German translation of 1991 Lord God of Poor Souls ), triggered a broad discussion and polemics because of its unfamiliar views and language. In his novel Ragno di sera he was more epic in his traditional sacredness and with his moral painting, later he distanced himself from his earlier anti-literary position.

Felice Filippini also worked as a translator from French and German into Italian.

Artistic work

In 1934 he began painting in Ugo Zaccheo's (1882–1972) studio in Lugano and later continued his training with Carlo Cotti (1903–1980). After initial efforts with woodcuts and painting, he soon became interested in wall painting and took part in the most important competitions for the decoration of public buildings, for example in 1940 he illustrated the stories of Niklaus von Flüe in the chisetta del soldati ("Soldier's Church ") chapel on Monte Ceneri, in 1949 he decorated the chapel on the square in front of the teachers' seminar in Locarno and in 1957 he painted the scene of a wedding celebration in Ticino on the wall of the top floor of the main staircase of the new town hall in Bellinzona .

He created numerous book illustrations , including 100 linocuts that he made for Guglielmo Canevascini's Ein Dorf Erwacht (translated by Jakob Bührer ).

From the 1950s onwards he worked almost exclusively as a painter and tried to incorporate foreign elements with his archaic style, using a palette rich in contrasts and colors. With his interest in European currents and his rejection of the solemn style widespread in the 20th century, he came close to the Milanese Correnti movement. The influence of Alberto Giacometti , whom he met in 1965 and to whom he dedicated some of his works, is clear in his late work .

Some of his works are located in the Lugano Arte e Cultura in Lugano.

Prices

  • Felice Filippi won the Lugano City Prize in 1942 for his novel Signore dei poveri morti .
  • In 1947 he received the Paraggi Prize for Racconti del Saturday sera .
  • As an essayist, his Procuste (published in Svizzera Italiana , No. 70–71, 1948) won the International Critics' Prize in 1948 at the Venice Biennale .
  • In 1951 he received the Schiller Prize for Ragno di sera from the Swiss Schiller Foundation with an associated donation of 1,500 Swiss francs .

Fonts (selection)

  • Signore dei poveri morti. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1943.
  • Is there any contemporary art in Ticino? In: Architecture and Art. Vol. 32, 1945, pp. 309-318.
  • Racconti del sabato sera. Ghilda del Libro, Lugano 1947.
  • Pane del Novecento. Edizioni svizzere per la gioventù (ESG), Zurich 1949.
  • Ragno di sera. Mondadori, Milano 1950.
  • Il Cebète. Carminati, Locarno 1950.
  • Una corona di ricci. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1951.
  • Il perdono. Translation by Max Grütter-Minder, Tschudy, St. Gallen 1951.
  • Figaro ovvero Il primo torto è quello di esser morto. Cenobio, Lugano 1952.
  • Una domenica per piangere. Sciascia, Caltanissetta-Roma 1959.
  • Fare il ritratto di Giacometti. (Essay), 1966.
  • Autoritratto di una pittura. Con un'introduzione di Giancarlo Vigorelli, CISAF, Milano 1977.
  • Rosso di sera. A cura di Flavio Catenazzi, postfazione di Diana Rüesch, Quaderni di "Cartevive", Lugano 2002.
  • Poetry. Con una postfazione di Giovanni Orelli , G. Casagrande, Lugano 2004.

literature

  • Domenico Bonini, Rudolf Schürch: Voci e accordi. Cento autori svizzeri dell'Ottocento e del Novecento. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2003, pp. 251-254.
  • Pierre Courthion: Felice Filippini. Edizioni ILTE, Torino 1971.
  • Pio Fontana: Felice Filippini. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2004 , accessed January 29, 2020 .
  • Giovanni Orelli : Felice Filippini. In: Svizzera italiana. Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986, pp. 184-187.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait archive. Retrieved July 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Roland Gröbli, Heidi Kronenberg, Markus Ries, Thomas Wallimann-Sasaki: Mystic middle man: 600 years of Niklaus von Flüe . P. 125. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-290-20138-8 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2019]).
  3. ^ Awards and donations (chronological) - Schiller Foundation. Retrieved on July 27, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Filippini, Felice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, translator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Arbedo
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1988
Place of death Muzzano