Libero Andreotti
Libero Andreotti (born June 15, 1875 in Pescia , † April 4, 1933 in Florence ) was an Italian sculptor . Libero Andreotti's works have had a strong and widespread influence on Italian sculpture.
Life
From the age of eight to seventeen he worked in a forge . In Lucca he met Alfredo Caselli and the poet Giovanni Pascoli , who introduced him to artistic and cultural matters. An uncle found work for him in Palermo at the Landron library there, where he was employed as an illustrator for the socialist weekly newspaper “La battaglia”. Disappointed in the Sicilian milieu, he returned to Florence in Tuscany , where he continued to work as an illustrator, caricaturist and ceramist.
Later in Milan he began to devote himself to sculpture on a smaller scale. He received help and support from the art dealer Grubicy, who recognized his talent and brought him to the Venice Biennale and then to Paris .
The stay in Paris was important, it allowed him to give up his provinciality and acquire new technical skills. With the outbreak of the First World War he had to return to Italy.
He made a deep and beneficial friendship with the critic Ugo Ojetti , who referred him to the larger art centers of northern Italy.
In 1922 he received the first major order (the monument to the fallen by Roncade ), followed by work on the monuments of Saronno , the Basilica of S. Croce in Florence and the Bolzano victory monument .
He spent the last years of his life in Florence, where he was inspired by the urban cultural milieu.
He is buried in the Porte Sante cemetery in San Miniato al Monte .
influence
In the 1980s the city of Pescia acquired a significant number of Andreotti's plaster casts, which he had used as the basis for his work. They form the Libero Andreotti plaster library, which is housed in the rooms of the old town hall.
Pescia, the city of his birth, established a museum in the Palagio in 1992, in which a total of 230 plaster models of his works are exhibited.
literature
- Luisella Bernardini: La scultura fra le due guerre: Libero Andreotti e la sua scuola . 1989.
- Penelope Curtis: Dead Language Sculpture. Sculpture from Fascist Italy. Leeds / Rovereto 2003. (deals with the works of Libero Andreotti, Arturo Martini , Fausto Melotti and Lucio Fontana .)
- Sabrina Michielli, Hannes Obermair (Red.): BZ '18 –'45: one monument, one city, two dictatorships. Accompanying volume for the documentation exhibition in the Bolzano Victory Monument . Folio Verlag, Vienna-Bozen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85256-713-6 , p. 27-28, 94-96, 108-111 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Andreotti, Libero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor, illustrator and ceramist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pescia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1933 |
| Place of death | Florence |