Pietro Annigoni

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Pietro Annigoni

Pietro Annigoni (born June 7, 1910 in Milan , † October 28, 1988 in Florence ) was an Italian painter and medalist . His works, painted in the technique of the old masters, were based on the models of the Renaissance and refused the "contemporary" departure from realism . These two styles are expressed in all of his works from still life , portrait , landscape painting to church frescoes . It was not only in the latter that he was a renewer of religious history painting .

Life

Annigoni was born in Milan on June 7, 1910. Towards the end of the 1920s he lived mainly in Florence, where he also became a student of the Scuole Pie Fiorentine ( Piarist College ). After graduating there, he became a student at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ; his teachers were u. a. Felice Carena (painting), Giuseppe Graziosi ( sculpture ) and Celestino Celestini ( graphic ).

Annigoni made his successful debut as an artist in 1930 when he and other artists organized his first exhibition in Florence. His first solo exhibition followed in 1932 (Bellini Galerie Palazzo Ferroni), but it was only two years later that an exhibition in Milan made him known throughout the country. From then on he went on many trips, which he a. a. to Germany, where he developed a great fondness for German painting .

In 1937 Annigoni married Anna Giuseppa Maggini in Florence and had two children with her: Benedetto (* 1939) and Maria Ricciarda (* 1948). In the years between 1945 and 1950 he created some of his most important works; including "Cinciarda", "The Scarecrow" and "The Loser". Together with six colleagues ( Antonio and Xavier Bueno , Gregory Sciltiau , Alfredo Serri and others), Annigoni decided in 1947 and published the manifesto of the painters of modern realism (see also Realism ).

Annigoni achieved worldwide recognition in March 1947 when the Royal Academy of Arts in London invited him to their major annual exhibition. From then on he was represented with exhibitions worldwide as well as in Italy; After several exhibitions in Great Britain, several followed in Italy ( Brescia , Florence , Rome , Turin , Verona and others) and in 1955 with the Peintres de la Réalité in Paris. From 1958 Annigoni was also repeatedly in the USA ; which " Time Magazin " was worth a cover picture . The National Academy of Design elected Annigoni in 1959 in New York as an honorary member ( Honorary NA ).

Pietro Annigoni's pupils included Lance Bressow , Luciano Guarnieri , Romano Stefanelli and Nelson Holbrook White .

In 1969 his wife Anna Giuseppa died after a serious illness. Pietro Annigoni died in Florence on October 28, 1988 at the age of 78. He found his final resting place on the Cimitero delle Porte Sante of San Miniato al Monte .

On November 25, 2008, the Museo Annigoni was opened in Florence on the premises of the Villa Stefano Bardinis .

Works (selection)

His works have been sold in major museums around the world, including the Uffizi Gallery (Florence), Palazzo Pitti (Florence), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Royal Collection ( Windsor ), National Portrait Gallery (London), Vatican Museums (Rome ).

  • La strega .
  • La bella Italiana . 1951
  • Principessa Elena Corsini . 1951
  • Anacoreti nel deserto
  • Conte Giancarlo Bossi Pucci
  • HM The Queen . 1969.
  • Princess Margaret Windsor (the painting is said to have been bought for the Queen at Christie's 2006 auction for £ 680,000).

literature

  • [Anonymous]: Annegoni. Polistampa, Florence 2000, ISBN 88-8304-197-6 .
  • Gilberto Grilli et al. a. (Ed.): Pietro Annigoni. Oltre l'apparenza. Edizione San Pietro, Assisi 2006. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name)
  • Luciano Pelizzari: Pietro Annigoni. Il periodo inglese, 1949-1971. Leonardo-DeLuca, Rome 1991, ISBN 88-7813-397-3 .
  • Antonio Paolucci et al. a. (Ed.): L'altro Annigoni. Tra metafisica ed esistentialismo. Mondadori, Milan 2006, ISBN 978-88-605-2069-2 . (Accompanying volume of the exhibition of the same name)

Web links

Commons : Pietro Annigoni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pietro Annigoni search results. laMoneta.it, accessed August 17, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Gallery Marforen: Exposition Internationale des Peintres de la Réalité , gallery Marforen, 91, Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris, MCMLV
  3. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "A" / Annigoni, Pietro Honorary 1959 ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 13, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  4. ↑ art-8, 2006, p. 116, illustration
personal data
SURNAME Annigoni, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, later a representative of the Renaissance and Realism
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1988
Place of death Florence , Italy