Berto Lardera

Berto Lardera's sculpture "Between the Worlds" in Hamburg - Harburg, Technical University (1959)

Berto Lardera - actually: Roberto Lardera (born December 18, 1911 in La Spezia , Italy , † 1989 in Paris , France ) was an Italian-French sculptor.

biography

Lardera was born in 1911 in La Spezia, Italy, the son of a shipyard worker. He completed the classical studies at the University of Florence. He taught himself the art of sculpture and sculpture as an autodidact .

Lardera's sculptures are essentially metal sculptures that were particularly monumental in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the sculptures Lardera processed the impressions from his childhood, when he was shaped by the impressions of the work in the shipyards.

In 1942 Lardera had his first solo exhibition in Milan. In 1947 Lardera moved to Paris, where he lived and worked until his death in 1989. In 1965 he took French citizenship. In Paris he began with exhibitions in the "Galerie Denise René", later in the "Salon de Mai" and in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles . In 1948, 1950 and 1952 Lardera participated in the Venice Biennale and represented Italy there. He was a participant in documenta 1 , documenta II and documenta III in 1955, 1959 and 1964 in Kassel .

Lardera's sculptures in Europe, America and Japan show the use of a wide range of different metals in different dimensions. Initially rather flat and two-dimensional, his work later became more diverse, multi-dimensional and varied.

Lardera was a visiting professor at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1961 .

• Photo by Paolo Monti, 1964
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Works

• Dawn No. 1 from 1957 in Berlin-Hansaviertel , Altonaer Str. 15
• Occasion Dramatique from 1960, installed in 1989 in Bremen on the President-Kennedy-Platz.
• Dramatic opportunity VIII from 1964 in Duisburg in front of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , Düsseldorfer Strasse.
• Heroic Rhythm IX from 1969 in Freiburg im Breisgau on the White Rose Square.
• Between the Worlds II from 1959 in Hamburg-Harburg in the pond on the campus of the TU Hamburg-Harburg .
• Sculpture in the Brückenkopf Park in Jülich
• Epoca eroica (sculpture in three dimensions II) from 1949/50 in Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange.

Web links

Commons : Berto Lardera  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Materials by and about Berto Lardera in the documenta archive