Gillo Dorfles

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Gillo Dorfles , also Angelo Eugenio Dòrfles (born April 12, 1910 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary ; died March 2, 2018 in Milan ), was an Italian painter and art critic .

Life

Angelo Dorfles' father came from Gorizia , Austria-Hungary, his mother from Genoa . After Italy entered the First World War , he stayed in Genoa with his mother, and Trieste became Italian after 1918. Like his childhood friends Roberto Bazlen and Ernesto Rogers , Dorfles was influenced by the cultural ideas of Central Europe by the Trieste-based Italo Svevo and Umberto Saba . With Bazlen he discussed the literature of Franz Kafka and Frank Wedekind . In 1934 he sat in on the Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in Dornach .

He completed his medical studies in Milan and Rome in 1935 with a specialization in psychiatry . He began to paint as a layman and painted mystical-grotesque pictures until 1940. After the war ended, he took part in an exhibition in Milan in 1945. From 1948 he was one of the founders of the Movimento per l'arte concreta , in whose exhibitions he regularly participated, and in 1956 he co-founded the Associazione per il disegno industriale . He gave up painting towards the end of the 1950s, turned to art theory and art criticism and devoted himself in particular to contemporary art. He taught aesthetics at the universities of Florence , Trieste, Milan and Cagliari . He started painting again in the early 1980s.

Dorfles wrote a large number of essays and several books. In 1987 he curated an exhibition about the futurist Gino Severini in Bolzano . He wrote the foreword to a catalog of furniture designs by Giotto Stoppino , to a book about the designer Marco Zanuso , and a contribution to a catalog raisonné of Arnaldo Pomodoros . In 2009 this was followed by an essay on the Bernd Hockemeyer ceramic collection and the foreword to a retrospective of Gianni Colombo .

In 1968 Dorfles published a fundamental study of kitsch and subsequently dealt with the interconnection of technology and consumption with art.

His own artistic production from the period between 1930 and 1960 was shown in Milan in 1986 and in the following years in Aosta , Rome and repeatedly in Milan.

Dorfles was honored frequently in old age, he received honorary doctorates from the Polytechnic of Milan , the Università di Palermo , the Università di Cagliari and the National Autonomous University of Mexico . He died in Milan in March 2018, six weeks before his 108th birthday.

Literary traces

The name Gillo Dorfles was mentioned in Konrad Bayer's novel The Sixth Sense in 1966 in the endless welcoming farce : … vera fugger shook hands with gillo dorfles. gillo dorfles shook hands with ives acker. ives acker shook hands with bruno buzek. ...

Fonts (selection)

  • L'architettura moderna . 1954
  • The oscillazioni del gusto: L'arte d'oggi tra tecnocrazia e consumismo . Lerici, Milan 1958
    • In the labyrinth of taste. Art between technology and consumption . With a foreword to the German edition. Translation by Ulrike Längle . Kirchheim, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-87410-023-5 .
  • Il divenire delle arti . Turin, 1959
  • Ultimate tendenze nell'arte d'oggi . 1961
  • Il kitsch. Antologia del cattivo gusto . Gabriele Mazzotta, Milan 1968
    • The kitsch . Translated from the Italian by Birgid Mayr. Studio Wasmuth, Tübingen 1969 ["in a very inadequate and incorrect translation" (Dorfles, 1987)]
  • Il disegno industriale e la sua estetica
  • with Enrichetta Ritter: Design italiano: mobili . Graphic design Bruno Munari . Introduzione di Gillo Dorfles. C. Bestetti, Milan 1968
  • Zanuso Marco - Marco Zanuso designer . Edititalia, Rome 1971
  • Mimmo Paladino : Veglia . Text Gillo Dorfles. Mazzotta, Milan 1984
  • with Pier Luigi Siena (ed.): Severini . Maretsch Castle - Bolzano 1987/88. Translation by Dorothea Morawetz. Mazzotta, Milan 1987 (bilingual). (Dorfles translated his contribution from Italian himself)
  • Daniele Baroni: Giotto Stoppino, dall'architettura al design . Electa, Milan 1983. (Foreword)
  • I fatti loro. Dal costume alle arti e viceversa. Feltrinelli, Milan 1983
  • La moda della moda . 1984
  • Elogio della disarmonia . 1986
  • Agenore Fabbri. Sculpture and painting . Edited by Erich Steingräber , Siegfried Salzmann , Gerald Gassiot-Talabot, Gillo Dorfles and Remi de Cnodder. Hirmer, Munich 1988
  • Il Feticcio quotidiano . 1988
    • Aesthetics of Discord: Reason and Myth in Modern Art . Translation by Ulrike Längle . Kirchheim, Munich 1988
  • Contribution in: Christoph Wulf , Dietmar Kamper (eds.): The glow of the beautiful . Steidl, Göttingen 1989, pp. 264-270
  • Arnaldo Pomodoro : Arnaldo Pomodoro: catalogo ragionata della scultura . Skira, Milan 2007 (article on pp. 16–25)
  • Horror plenary. La (in) civiltà del rumore . Castelvecchi Editore, 2008
  • Conformisti. La morte dell'autenticità . Castelvecchi Editore, 2008
  • Luca M. Barbero, Marco Bazzini, Gillo Dorfles, ML Gelmini: Mauro Staccioli. All'origine del fare . Corraini Edizioni, Mantua 2008
  • Margret Haase (Ed.): The Hockemeyer collection: 20th century Italian ceramic art . Hirmer, Munich 2009 (foreword)
  • Marcella Beccaria (Ed.): Gianni Colombo . Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea 2009. Skira, Milano 2009
  • Fatti e fattoidi. Gli pseudoeventi nell'arte e nella società . Castelvecchi Editore, 2009
  • Irritazioni. Un'analisi del costume contemporaneo , Castelvecchi Editore. 2010
  • Dal significato alle scelte ., Castelvecchi Editore, 2010
  • Devi fidarti della percezione se vuoi davvero capire te stesso . In: Corriere della Sera . January 29, 2015. pp. 42-43. (via Lambert Wiesing )

literature

  • N. Corradini: Dorfles, Gillo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , pp. 60 f.
  • Dorfles, Gillo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 5 : V-Z. Supplements: A-G . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1961, p. 435 .
  • Werner Spies : The garden gnome's beard. An anthology by Gillo Dorfles , in: The eye at the crime scene: eighty encounters with art and artists . Prestel, Munich 1999, pp. 266-268, ISBN 3-7913-0484-4 .

Web links

Commons : Gillo Dorfles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio Gnoli: E 'morto Gillo Dorfles, scompare a 107 anni il rivoluzionario critico d'arte . Repubblica.it , March 2, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ A Hermann Dörfles ran a leather factory in Görz around 1820, see Johann Joseph von Prechtl : Jahrbücher des kaiserl. royal polytechnic institute in Vienna . Volume 5, Vienna 1824, p. 160
  3. ↑ a b c d Giorgio Dell'Arti: Biografia di Gillo Dorfles . Cinquantamila.it , March 2, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Gillo Dorfles. Kitsch - oggi il kitsch. Triennale di Milano, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 2, 2018 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Konrad Bayer: Complete Works. Vienna (1996). the sixth sense . P. 588f.
personal data
SURNAME Dorfles, Gillo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dòrfles, Angelo Eugenio (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, art critic and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 2nd March 2018
Place of death Milan