Pietro Marussig
Pietro Marussig (born 10. May 1879 in Trieste , Austria-Hungary ; died 13. October 1937 in Pavia ) was an Italian painter of Expressionism and the Novecento .
Life
Marussig lived in Vienna and Munich from 1899 to 1901, where he dealt with the work of the Vienna Secession and Central European Expressionism . In 1905 he studied the Impressionists in Paris , in particular with Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse , from 1906 he lived in Trieste in a villa on the Chiadino . When Italy entered the war in 1915, he was interned. Around 1920 he moved to Milan , where he met Carlo Carrà , Mario Sironi and Achille Funi . He was one of the founders of the Novecento art movement , which Margherita Sarfatti had gathered around her and which, alongside him, consisted of the artists Anselmo Bucci , Leonardo Dudreville , Achille Funi, Gian-Emilio Malerba , Mario Sironi and Ubaldo Oppi . The art direction Novecento should return to order, silence and tranquility. Together with Funi, he founded an art school in Milan.
His cousin Guido Marussig (1885–1972) was also a painter.
literature
- A. Wagner-Wilke: Marussig, Pietro . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 87, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0 , p. 424 f.
- Rossella Canuti: Marussig, Piero (Pietro). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 71: Marsilli – Massimino da Salerno. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2008.
- Maurizio Calvesi: Futurism. Munich 1975.
- Caroline Tisdall, Angelo Bozzola: Futurism. London 2000, ISBN 0-500-20159-5 .
- Christa Baumgarth: History of Futurism. Reinbek near Hamburg 1966.
- Evelyn Benesch, Ingried Brugger: Futurism - Radical Avant-garde. Exhibition catalog. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-202-1602-7 .
- Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann : Futurism - History, Aesthetics, Documents. Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-55535-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Piero Marussig in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ A. Wagner-Wilke: Marussig, Guido . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 87, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0 , p. 425.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marussig, Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marussig, Piero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter of expressionism and novecento |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trieste , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1937 |
| Place of death | Pavia |