Mario Sironi

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Mario Sironi (born May 12, 1885 in Sassari in Sardinia , Italy , † August 15, 1961 in Milan ) was an Italian painter of Futurism and co-founder of the artist group "Novecento" .

Life

As the son of Giulia Sironi (1860–1943), daughter of Professor Ignazio Villa from Florence and Enrico Sironi (1847–1898), engineer of the State Building Authority, who came from the Como area and was staying in Sardinia for a reclamation project, Mario became Sironi was born in Sassari, the second of six children. Just one year after his birth, the family moved to Rome, where Mario Sironi attended elementary and high school. After graduating from the Technical High School, in 1902 he began studying at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rome. In 1903, however, he broke off his studies in order to devote himself exclusively to painting and to study at a private art school in Via di Ripetta in Rome.

In Rome, he met the artists Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916), Gino Severini (1883–1966) and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), with whom he cultivated a close friendship from then on. With Boccioni he traveled through France and Germany in 1908. With his early works, which show echoes of Cubism , he leaned closely on Boccioni and Severini, later his works became more abstract . In 1913 he went on a study trip to Paris. It was not until 1915 that Sironi was officially admitted to the circle of futurist painters; in 1916 he exhibited sixteen of his works in the "Free Futurist Exhibition" in Rome.

After Italy entered the First World War , Sironi volunteered for military service, but was able to continue his work. From 1916 the magazine Avvenimenti regularly published war drawings by Sironi. Shortly before the end of the war, he painted pictures that can be assigned to the Pittura metafisica .

After the war, in which he had lost his friend Boccioni, Sironi began to distance himself from the Futurists, who under Marinetti had now primarily devoted themselves to politics. In 1918/19 he moved to Milan, where he worked as an art critic and illustrator.

In 1922 Sironi began writing art reviews for Mussolini's daily Il Popolo d'Italia . In the same year he co-founded the “ Novecento Italiano ” movement alongside Achille Funi , Ubaldo Oppi and other artists .

Due to his good relations with the fascist regime , Sironi received numerous orders for wall decorations, reliefs, as well as glass windows and mosaics. His monumental, heroic murals earned him criticism after the war, but could not significantly reduce his artistic rank. So his works were u. a. also shown at documenta 1 (1955), documenta II (1959) and documenta III (1964) in Kassel .

Sources and literature

  • Harten, Jürgen / Poetter, Jochen (eds.): Mario Sironi . Catalog Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Cologne 1988.
  • Roos, Gerd: The cool look. Realism of the 1920s in Europe and America - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München from 1.6. - 2.9.2001 . ISBN 3-7913-2513-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harten, Jürgen / Poetter, Jochen (eds.): Mario Sironi, catalog Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Cologne: DuMont Verlag 1988, p. 241
personal data
SURNAME Sironi, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of Futurism and Novecento
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Sassari in Sardinia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1961
Place of death Milan , Italy