Pietro Angelozzi

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Pietro Angelozzi (born November 9, 1925 in Rotella , Italy ; † March 22, 2015 in Gossau SG ) was an Italian-Swiss brut artist .

life and work

Pietro Angelozzi's mother died when he was eleven months old. After that he grew up mainly with his grandfather and an aunt. At the age of five he already worked as a shepherd and later as a farmhand on the surrounding farms. He did not learn a trade and refused to do military service. In 1963 he came to eastern Switzerland, where he worked as a construction worker and in a factory, then as a warehouse worker in a Migros operations center. He lived in Gossau, where he spent the last years of his life in the «Schwalbe» home for the elderly.

Angelozzi's pictures are about his seven visions , which he is said to have experienced between 1932 and 1974, but also about stages in his life, such as life with grandfather in the country. Angelozzi's pictures have been shown in many exhibitions: several times in the museum in the warehouse in St. Gallen, which owns a group of works by him, in the art museum of the canton of Thurgau or in Langenthal. Pietro Angelozzi had his last own exhibition in December 2012 at the Galerie Tolle in Rehetobel.

Exhibitions

  • 2001 Between heaven and today. Visions, dreams, fantasies Kunsthaus Langenthal (group exhibition)
  • 2007/2008 fire worlds. «Hot» pictures from the museum collection, Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)
  • 2012: Art gallery Tolle, Rehetobel (group exhibition)
  • 2015–2016: Ego documents , Museum im Lagerhaus, St. Gallen (group exhibition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Daniel Wirth: A man and his visions. St. Galler Tagblatt , April 16, 2015, accessed on June 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Angelozzi, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Swiss Art Brut artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotella (Marche) , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2015
Place of death Gossau SG