Medardo Rosso

Sick child

Bambino malato (Sick Child) (1895)

Medardo Rosso (born June 21, 1858 in Turin , † March 31, 1928 in Milan ) was an Italian-French sculptor.

Life

Medardo Rosso was born the son of a station master. The family moved to Milan in 1870.

Between 1879 and 1881 he did his military service in Pavia . During this time he also began to take painting lessons. From 1882 he studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, but was excluded from the course after eleven months. In 1885 he married Giuditta Pozzi , from whom he had a son in the same year. Four years later he moved to Paris , where he set up his own foundry in 1896. In 1900 he met the Dutch artist and patron Etha Fles . In 1902 he took French citizenship. During a stay in Vienna in 1903, he was hit by a tram and suffered a traumatic brain injury . In 1922 he returned to Milan. From 1927 the first health problems became noticeable. He died during an operation.

literature

• Carola Giedion-Welcker : Sublimation and spiritualization of plastic form in Medardo Rosso . In: Architektur und Kunst , Vol. 41, 1954, pp. 329–334.
• Gabriele Stix-Marget: painter without a brush. The sculptor and photographer of his works Medardo Rosso 1858-1928 . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89675-456-4

Web links

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