Giovanni Prini

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Giovanni Prini (born June 14, 1877 in Genoa , † September 9, 1958 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor and painter.

Giovanni was the youngest of Vitaliano and Antonia Prini's four children; his brother Emilio was the grandfather of the conceptual artist Emilio Prini . From 1892 he attended courses at the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti and was a student of Michele Sansebastiano . In 1896 he made his debut with Le tentazioni di S. Antonio at the Esposizione Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in his hometown, in which he participated several times until the end of the 1920s. In 1898 he sent the plaster sculpture Le spose del Signore to the Esposizione Generale Italiana in Turin, where it was applauded by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Leonardo Bistolfi .

In the same year he created his oil portrait of the young Orazia Belsito , and in 1900 he moved to Rome and opened a studio near the Palazzo Lanzavecchia , the residence of the Belsito family. In 1900 and 1901 he participated in the Esposizioni di Belle Arti of the Società degli Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni with several works.

In September 1901 he married Orazia Belsito. Giacomo Balla , Duilio Cambellotti , Gino Severini , Mario Sironi , Umberto Boccioni , Ettore Ximenes , the musician Alberto Gasco , the sculptor and founder of the “Scuola di Arte Educatrice” Francesco Randone and the poet Giovanni Cena visited the “Salon Plini” that was now being created , a friend of Pellizza da Volpedo , who worked with Sibilla Aleramo , Plinio Nomellini , Maria Montessori and Alessandro Marcucci for the idea of ​​a humanitarian socialism.

Prini made these ideas his own, and in the paintings and bronzes of the following period the protagonists are the dispossessed, the poor, the elderly and children. Its at the LXXIII. Esposizione Internazionale di Belle Arti in 1903 praised Arduino Colosanti in the magazine L'Arte as "gentile poema dell'infanzia dolorosa", and his works for the exhibition in 1904 and the following years testified to his strong social commitment. His Il tesoretto and Il segreto dei bimbi were sent to the 1904 World's Fair in Louisiana , where Il tesoretto was awarded a silver medal.

Prini created a bust and an oil portrait of the writer Sibilla Aleramo , a visitor to the “Salon Prini” and author of the book Una Donna , published in 1906 . He participated in the LXXVII Esposizione Internazionale with portraits by the sculptors Alberto Felci and Felix Tannenbaum and the painters Giacomo Balla and Antonio Maraini . With Gli amanti he took part in the Biennale di Venezia for the first time in 1909 , with Il segreto the bimbi in the Xth International Art Exhibition in Monaco.

In 1910 Prini signed the Manifesto die pittori futuristi alongside Umberto Boccioni , Gino Severini , Luigi Russolo and Carlo Carrà . In the same year he was represented with Segreto dei bimbi at the International Art Exhibition in Buenos Aires. In 1913, 1914 and 1916 he took part in the international exhibitions of secession art in Rome. In 1919 he became artistic director of the Stabilimento per la Fabbricazione del Giuocattolo Italiano , for which he designed toys. In 1916 he created a bust of Nino Costa for the Giardino del Gianicolo .

In 1929 and 1930 he took part in the exhibitions of the fascist Sindacato Laziale . In the 1930s he worked on some of Marcello Piacentini's architectural plans . From 1931 to 1951 he was a regular participant in the exhibitions of the Quadriennale di Roma . In 1937 he was appointed academic correspondent and in 1943 accademico di merito effettivo of the Accademia di San Luca . After the war he was mainly active in the field of religious art.

Works

  • Le tentazioni di S. Antonio , 1896
  • Impressioni di marinaio , 1898
  • Pitonessa , 1898
  • Romano , 1898
  • Nostalgia , 1898
  • Ritmo , 1899
  • Sinfonia triste , 1899
  • Rievocazione , 1899
  • Le spose del Signore , 1899
  • Capaneo , 1899
  • L'angelo del perdono , 1899
  • Ritratto della fidanzata Orazia Belsito , 1899
  • Donna e bambini in campagna , 1900
  • Bambine sedute , 1900
  • Bamba seduta , 1900
  • Campagna , 1900
  • Il segreto dei bimbi , 1902
  • L'erba morta, la falce ei bimbi , 1902
  • La pietra del fonte , 1902
  • Ritratto di Orazia , 1902
  • Gli scartati , 1903
  • Le vecchiette di una casa di riposo , 1903
  • Vangatori , 1903
  • Amanti , 1904
  • Ritratto di Giacomo Balla , 1904
  • Colloquio di Fabbri , 1904
  • Donna tra i pioppi , 1904
  • Il passerotto , 1904
  • Paolo e Francesca , 1904
  • Bozzetto per un monumento a Dante , 1905
  • Figura femminile ammantata , 1905
  • Sibilla Aleramo , 1905
  • Cenerentola , 1907
  • Testa di fabbro , 1907
  • La parolina all'orecchio , 1908
  • Ritratto di Pio Piacentini , 1908
  • Amanti (1), 1909
  • Amanti (2), 1909
  • Ritratto di Lisa , 1910
  • Bimbo con rospo , 1912
  • Lampada , 1912
  • Mia moglie , 1914
  • Maschera , 1917
  • Birilli della ditta SFAGI , 1920
  • Bamboline della ditta SFAGI , 1920
  • Simulacro di Cristo , 1920
  • Giocattoli della ditta SFAGI , 1920
  • Invocazione , 1921
  • La vita , 1921
  • Primavera (1), 1921
  • Primavera (2), 1921
  • Rondine (1), 1921
  • Rondine (2), 1921
  • Tomba trapanese , 1921
  • Tripod , 1921
  • Idoletto , 1925
  • L'idolo di casa , 1925
  • Passo di danza , 1926
  • Danzatrice , 1926
  • Poltroncina , 1926
  • Bozzetto per la porta della Casa madre dei mutilati , 1927
  • La mia nipotina , 1929
  • Riposo della viandante , 1929
  • Cristo ei bambini , 1930
  • Bocciolino , 1931
  • Il riposo della baiadera , 1931
  • La malatina , 1933
  • Serenella , 1933
  • Passo di giovinezza , 1934
  • Le stelle , 1934
  • Torso , 1935
  • Bozzetto per la porta della Chiesa dei SS Pietro e Paolo , 1939
  • Ritratto di Giovannella , 1942
  • Nudo femminle disteso , 1955

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personal data
SURNAME Prini, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1958
Place of death Rome