Michele Guerrisi

M. Guerrisi, self-portrait

Michele Guerrisi (born February 23, 1893 in Cittanova near Reggio Calabria , † 1963 in Rome ) was an Italian artist and art historian.

Life

Guerrisi grew up in Palmi (Calabria). He studied in Calabria , Florence , Rome and Naples , where he graduated from the Instituto di Belle Arti (Art Academy) in 1916 with a degree in literature and sculpture. In the following years he taught art history at the art academies in Palermo (1920-21), Carrara (1921-22) and Turin (1922-1941). In Turin he also taught art history at the Scuola Superiore di Architettura (School of Architecture) and at the Facoltà di Magistero (University of Education). After 1941 he was a professor at the Art Academy in Rome, where he became director in 1952.

Michele Guerrisi was married to Martha Rempdte, who came from a German-Danish family based in Naples.

Michele Guerrisi's pupils were e.g. B. in Turin Umberto Mastroianni (* 1910, † 1998) and in Rome Elisabeth Managò , b. Herder (* 1930, † 2013). Works by Michele Guerrisi as a sculptor stand a. a. in his birthplace Cittanova (monument in the park), in Palmi (the grave of the composer and music teacher Francesco Cilea from Palmi and the memorial for fallen soldiers), in Turin and in Rome.

literature

• Guerrisi , Roma 1957 (for Fratelli Palombi Editori). Short autobiography with numerous judgments from contemporaries or from press articles as well as with many photos of his works as a sculptor.
• A sculptor's reflections on Michelangelo's work , in: Der Bildhauer Michelangelo, Freiburg 1966 (from Herder). Contribution in German published in an illustrated book about Michelangelo.

Works

Here is a selection of important, publicly exhibited works (mostly monuments). Many other works can be found in the Museum of Palmi, to which Michele Guerrisi bequeathed the estate after his death with the intention of exhibiting his works.

• "Monument to the fallen students of the University of Naples" (1921) in Naples.
• "Bust of Benedetto Croce" (1922) in Naples and in the Museum of Palmi.
• "Monument to the Fallen of Palmi" (1929) in Palmi, Calabria.
• "Monument to the Fallen of Catanzaro" (1932) in Catanzaro.
• "Tomb of Noemi Marone" (1938) in Turin.
• "La filosofia" (The Philosophy " , 1941) in Rome, statue at the Palazzo della Civiltà of the EUR.
• "Bust of the sculptor U. Mastroianni" (1934).
• "The Resurrection of Lazarus" (1937) in Turin, monument in front of the Cappella Vaciago.
• "Statue of Julius Caesar" (1939) in the Roman Museum of Vercelli.
• "Annunciation" (1933) in the Asti cemetery.
• "The tomb of Francesco Cilea" (1954) in Palmi.
• "The Birth of Venus" (1954) in Turin, Piazzetta della Società anonima di Assicurazioni.