Remo Brindisi

Remo Brindisi (born April 25, 1918 in Rome , † July 25, 1996 in Comacchio ) was an Italian painter , sculptor , art collector and museum founder .

Life

Remo Brindisi was born in Rome as the eighth child of a family of eleven. He studied in Pescara , L'Aquila and Rome and attended the art school in Urbino . During the Second World War he was a soldier in a unit stationed near the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy. After the war he turned to abstract art. His first creations included abstract sculptures that he carved out of wood. At the same time, he began to collect works by well-known representatives of all art movements in modern art, including Dadaism , including sculptures by Hans Arp , Max Ernst , Oskar Kokoschka and Salvador Dalí , ceramic vessels by Pablo Picasso and numerous oil paintings and collages by well-known artists from Europe , Asia and America. He exchanged some of the collectibles for his own works.

Tomb of Remo Brindisi

In the 1960s he moved from Milan to Lido di Spina , a seaside resort belonging to the Comacchio municipality , where he realized his lifelong dream in 1976 and opened his own museum of modern art, the Casa Museo Remo Brindisi , Via N. Pisano 45, Lido di Spina. The architecturally idiosyncratic three-storey building, whose spacious staircase is tiled throughout, includes a small art park in which abstract sculptures are set up and where cultural events such as musical performances, poet lectures, Book presentations, talk shows and other encounters take place.

When Remo Brindisi died in 1996 at the age of 78, his art collection comprised around a thousand objects.

The Comacchio community granted him his wish to be buried on his own property in Lido di Spina. Brindisi's grave is in the small front garden of the museum he founded, which was also his place of work and which still houses his studio, which can also be visited there.

Web links

Commons : Remo Brindisi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography and works (Italian)