Luigi Pericle Giovannetti

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Luigi Pericle Giovannetti , artist name Luigi Pericle, and other spellings of names, (born June 22, 1916 in Basel ; died August 10, 2001 in Ascona ) was a Swiss artist of Italian origin.

Life

Born in Bâle in 1916 with an Italian father, Pietro Giovannetti from Monterubbiano, and a French mother Eugénie Rosé, Luigi Pericle Giovannetti attended an art school at the age of seventeen, which he soon left and became self-taught. He studied East Asian, ancient Egyptian and Greek philosophy.

In 1947 he married the painter Orsolina Klainguti from the canton of Graubünden. In the 1950s he moved to Ascona with his wife, where they spent the rest of their lives.

The house in which he lived until the end of his life is called "Casa San Tomaso". After the artist's death, the house stood empty for sixteen years as there were no heirs. December 2016 the house was bought by the neighbors and paintings and sketches as well as unpublished works were discovered,

Max la Marmotte and the production of comics

Giovannetti also worked as an illustrator for the English satirical magazine Punch, in which his comics were published several times.

In 1951 his first book The Drunk Squirrel was published by Vineta Verlag, under the name Pericle Giovannetti. In 1952 he created a picture book for children for the Union syndicale suisse as a Christmas present.

In 1952 he created the comic figure Max , which experienced an international distribution. He worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, draftsman, painter and poster painter and drew for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter

In 1953 he created Max , the main actor in the comic strip consisting of only pictures for people of all ages, Max la Marmotte , for which he became internationally known. The characters quickly became famous, especially in Europe, USA and Japan. The book Max was reprinted 25 times between 1954 and 2004. The reprint of the works of Giovannetti continued until 2015 when Creative Media Partners Max Presents Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes, and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women, and Other Animals brought out.

In 1958 he wrote together with Clive King Hamid of Aleppo, for which he also produced the illustrations. His illustrations were published by New York based publisher Macmillan and later in famous newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post , The Herald Tribune, and Punch. He signs his works under the name Giovannetti or Pericle Giovannetti. Max's adventure books and other characters were reprinted several times in Germany, France and the UK,

Luigi Pericle

In 1959, under the name Luigi Pericle, he began a collaboration with Peter G. Staechelin, an art collector from Bâle, who bought works from the artist for his own collection several times. In 1962 he met Martin Summers, gallery owner and manager of the Arthur Tooth & Sons gallery in London, where the painter organized two of his own exhibitions in 1962 and 1965 and two collective exhibitions in 1964 - Color, Form and Texture and Contrasts in Taste II.

In 1963, works were also exhibited in the Castelnuovo art gallery in Ascona. Hans Hess, administrator of the York Art Gallery, organized Luigi Pericle's own traveling exhibition in 1965, with a selection of 50 works in several English museums, including York, Newcastle, Hull, Bristol, Cardiff and Leicester.

In January 1965, the art critic and co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London visited Pericle's studio in Ascona. He wrote the foreword to the catalog of the Pericles exhibition, organized by Hans Hess, later added to the book Luigi Pericle: dipinti e disegni . Between 1960 and 1980 the artist created a series of works on canvas and wood with sketches and ink. During this time Luigi Pericle's catalog: dipinti e disegni was printed: the project of the individual representation of the artist was started in collaboration with Staechelin and completed after his death by his son Ruedi Staechelin.

In 1996 he finished the book Until the End of Times. A single chapter of this was published in 1995 under the name Amduat. Orsolina died in 1997, Pericle lived until 2001 and left no heirs.

The Pericles paintings are part of the Collezione Municipale d'Ascona, the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in Bristol and the York Art Gallery in New York.

Posthumously after 2016 a very large number of art objects and documents were found in his house in Ascona, which have since been indexed in the Luigi Pericle archive. Since the end of 2018, new research, the new discovery of the artist and the exhibition at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia (May 11th - November 24th 2019) together with the publication of the catalog “Luigi Pericle. Beyond the visible ”.

Works

  • (de) From my menagerie Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1951
  • (it) L'unione fa la forza: strenna natalizia per i piccini , Unione Svizzera dei sindacati liberi, 1952
  • (de) The drunk squirrel , Vineta-Verl, 1951
  • (en) Max , MacMillan Company, 1954
  • (en) Max Presents: Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women and Other Animals; Conceived by Max, Supervised by Max, Selected by Max, Arranged and Edited by Max, Commentary by Max , Macmillan (NY), 1956
  • (en) Max Presents Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes, and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women, and Other Animals , HardPress Publishing, 2013, ( ISBN 978-1-313-55746-7 )
    • (en) Max Presents Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes, and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women, and Other Animals , HardPress Publishing, 2013, ( ISBN 978-1-313-55746-7 )
      • (en) Max Presents Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes, and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women, and Other Animals , Creative Media Partners, LLC, August 8, 2015, ( ISBN 978-1-296-56231-1 ) .
        • (en) Max Presents Portraits, Sketches, Vignettes, and Pictorial Memoranda of Men, Women, and Other Animals , Creative Media Partners, LLC, August 8, 2015, ( ISBN 978-1-296-56231-1 ) .
    • (en) Beware of the Dog , Macmillan, 1958.
    • (en) Clive King e Giovannetti, Hamid of Aleppo, MacMillan Company, 1958
    • (en) Nothing But Max , MacMillan Company, 1959
    • (en) Birds without words, MacMillan Company, 1961
    • (en) The Penguin Max , Penguin, 1962
    • (de) Jawassinüdsäged! Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1971
    • (de) Max: d. Marmot, smiles about dd world, heyne , 1973,
    • Max - The marmot , 1981 ( ISBN 978-3-453-00311-8 )
    • (de) 111 new fireplace stories , Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1975
    • (de) Pablo, Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1976
    • (de) Yes - who's chunted there? Nebelspalter-Verlag, 1976
    • (de) Max: all the adventures of the groundhog that makes the world smile , Heyne, 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Giovannetti, Luigi Pericle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luigi Pericle (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2001
Place of death Ascona