Gianni Dova
Gianni Dova (born January 8, 1925 in Rome , Italy , † October 14, 1991 in Pisa , Italy) was an Italian painter .
Life
Gianni Dova moved to Milan in 1939 . There he first studied at the Liceo Artistico and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera . He got to know the artists Roberto Crippa and Lucio Fontana , with whom he worked closely from 1947. Gianni Dova was one of the leading artists of the Italian, avant-garde artist movement " movimento spazialista ", which included Roberto Crippa and Lucio Fontana as well as Giorgio Kaisserlian , Beniamino Joppolo , Milena Milani , Sergio Dangelo , Carlo Cardazzo and Cesare Peverelli .
Gianni Dova's pictorial work is characterized by a fantastic, surrealist character, which he composed with abstract elements. Dova's art gained wide international recognition in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a participant in documenta 2 in Kassel in 1959 . Dova lived and worked in Rome for most of his life. He is one of the most important representatives of abstract art after the Second World War .
literature
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dova, Gianni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1991 |
| Place of death | Pisa , Italy |