Luigi Bonazza

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Luigi Bonazza (born February 1, 1877 in Arco , † November 4, 1965 in Trento ) was an Italian painter .

Life

Luigi Bonazza was born as the son of the pharmacist Ferdinando Bonazza and his aristocratic wife Luigia Saibanti in what was then Austrian Arco in Tyrol . In Rovereto he attended the Scuola Reale Superiore Elisabettina from 1890-1897 , where he received drawing lessons from Luigi Comel. He then moved to Vienna , where he studied with Felician Myrbach and Franz Matsch at the arts and crafts school . He graduated in 1901 and initially became a security guard to earn money, but in 1903 he was able to open his own studio. Around 1904–1905 he visited Istria . The dancer Poldi became his girlfriend and at the same time his favorite model. In the first decade of the 20th century he took part in several exhibitions in Vienna ( Künstlerhaus 1906, 1907, 1910; Secession 1907, 1908, 1911).

In 1912 Bonazza returned to his homeland at the request of his mother. He married Ludmilla Rosa Krainer, whom he had met in Vienna, and became a drawing teacher in Trento. 1912–1914 he built a house for himself, on the artistic equipment of which he was to work for decades. Bonazza founded the Trento Artistic Circle (Circolo Artistico Trentino).

During the First World War , Bonazza fled Austria in 1915 after Italy entered the war and became an industrial designer at the Caproni aviation company in Vizzola Ticino . In 1917 he opened a studio in nearby Milan . After the end of the war he returned to Trento, became a drawing teacher again and founded the Circolo Artistico Trentino, which was dissolved during the war.

Italian State Bonazza took in the 1920s participated in several exhibitions, including in 1920 at the Biennale in Venice , and received several public commissions. After 1930, his style was considered out of date, so his last public commission was a fresco on the post office in Trento (1931). He lived with his sister in Torbole on Lake Garda for a long time . In 1944 he fled to Bosentino from the war . In 1946 he returned to Trento. In the last years of his life he had to quit his work due to an eye disease.

In Trento, Via Luigi Bonazza was named after the artist.

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Bonazza was based on the Vienna Secession and was stylistically a representative of Art Nouveau and Symbolism . He dealt mainly with allegorical, mythological and religious subjects and was also a representative of landscape painting . His steel engravings are of particular importance . Bonazza was very successful for many years, participated in numerous exhibitions and was collected by enthusiasts.

His private house in Trento, on which he worked from 1912 to the early 1950s, occupies a special position. Here he tried to realize his ideal of a total work of art (a typical concern of Art Nouveau) by creating wall decorations, furnishings and furniture.

  • Orpheus and Eurydice , oil on canvas, 173 × 375 cm, MART Museo d'arte moderno e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (1905)
  • Evening mood in Vienna , oil on canvas, 77 × 131 cm (1908)
  • Jovis Amores , series of steel engravings (1906–1910)
  • Allegory of the day , series of steel engravings (1909–1920)
  • Cesare Battisti , etching (1916)
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio , etching (1926)
  • Reception of three cardinals at the Palazzo a Prato at the time of the Council , fresco, Palazzo delle Poste in Trento (1932–1933)

literature

  • Luigi Bonazza (1877-1965). Catalog of the exhibition in Trento and Vienna . Trento, Museo Provinciale d'Arte 1985, ISBN 88-7702-000-8
  • Maximiliane Buchner: Happiness should be at home here. Inhabited dreams - the artist houses of Luigi Bonazza, William Morris and Carl Larsson. Innsbruck, Innsbruck University Press 2012, ISBN 978-3-902811-59-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 114-119 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bonazza, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Arco
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1965
Place of death Trent