Raimondo Pereda
Raimondo Pereda (born September 29, 1840 in Lugano ; † October 10, 1915 there ) was a Swiss painter and sculptor .
Life
Pereda attended the drawing school in Lugano and was from 1857 to 1861 at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan . He then completed an internship with the Milanese sculptor Pietro Magni . Raimondo Pereda opened his own studio around 1874 and received numerous commissions for the local Cimitero Monumentale and other cemeteries in Lombardy .
In the competition for the Tell monument in Altdorf , he achieved third place. In 1893 he finally returned to Lugano and was a drawing teacher there. From 1891 to 1896 and from 1898 to 1900 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission .
His genre sculptures, which are strongly influenced by Verism , found great approval in bourgeois society , but hardly contributed to the development of art. Pereda's most common motifs were groups of women and children with pronounced, almost caricature-like facial expressions . His interest in symbolism is evidenced by many cemetery sculptures
literature
- Gianna A. Mina: Raimondo Pereda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 18, 2008 , accessed March 15, 2020 .
- Giulio Foletti: Arte nell'Ottocento. La pittura e la scultura del Cantone Ticino (1870-1920). Armando Dadò Seditore, Locarno 2001, pp. 371–379.
- L'affermazione di un'identità, 1870-1914. Exhibition catalog, Lugano 2002.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pereda, Raimondo. In: Sikart , accessed January 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pereda, Raimondo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lugano |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1915 |
| Place of death | Lugano |