Francesco Cangiullo

Francesco Cangiullo (born January 27, 1888 in Naples , † July 22, 1977 in Livorno ) was an Italian poet and painter of Futurism . His brother Pasqualino Cangiullo , born in 1900, was also a futurist.

Life

On April 20, 1910, during a “futuristic evening”, Cangiullo came across Marinetti , Boccioni , Carrà and Russolo and joined them. As an autodidact, he developed methods of breaking down language in painting, poetry and in the theater. In 1914 he presented himself for the first time as a painter and lecturer. He later devoted himself to the typographical design of literary texts that often appear in Lacerba , Vela Latina and L'Italia Futurista . Cangiullo is also active in the theater sector, his piece Detonation , which he composed in 1916 and lasts only a few minutes, has become one of the most famous “theater syntheses” of Futurism. At the beginning of the 1920s he worked with Marinetti on the theory of the “theater of surprise”. In 1924 Cangiullo separated from the Futurists, the reason being a dispute with Marinetti, to whom he remained connected until his death in 1944. Between 1930 and 1933 he returned, at least temporarily, to futurism and published the short story Marinetti al Vesuvuio and the novel Ninì Champagne .

literature

• Maurizio Calvesi: Futurism. Munich 1975.
• Evelyn Benesch, Ingried Brugger: Futurism. Radical avant-garde. Milan 2003.
• Caroline Tisdall, Angelo Bozzola: Futurism. London 2000, ISBN 0-500-20159-5 .
• Christa Baumgarth: History of Futurism. Reinbek near Hamburg 1966.
• Evelyn Benesch, Ingried Brugger: Futurism - Radical Avant-garde. Exhibition catalog. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-202-1602-7 .
• Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann : Futurism - History, Aesthetics, Documents. Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-55535-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data by Francesco Cangiullo in: history of Futurism , by Christa Tree Garth, Rowohlt, Reinbek, 1966, page 288