René Paresce

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René Paresce (Renato Herbert Paresce, born January 5, 1886 in Carouge , Switzerland , † October 15, 1937 in Paris , France ) was an Italian physicist , painter and journalist .

biography

René Paresce's father was an Italian from Palermo and his mother, Lidia Ignatieff, was the daughter of a Russian businessman. He spent his childhood and youth mainly in Florence . He first studied at the Istituto tecnico industriale Leonardo da Vinci . He then studied physics at the University of Bologna and finished his physics studies in 1911 at the University of Palermo . He became a science teacher at the Collegio alla Quercia in Florence.

Paresce began to paint as an autodidact and befriended the painter Baccio Maria Bacci (1888–1974). He also worked as a translator for French and Russian. In 1912 he married the pianist Ella Klatschko (1880–1966), daughter of the Russian-Jewish revolutionary Samuel Klatschko . In 1912 the couple moved to Paris. There René Paresce met modern painters such as Paul Cezanne , Pablo Picasso , Diego Rivera and Amedeo Modigliani . During the First World War he moved to England , where he worked on research at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington .

After the war he worked as a journalist at the Versailles Conference and worked for Il Giornale d'Italia and later for La Stampa . He also wrote art critical articles. In 1926, at the invitation of Margherita Sarfatti , he took part in the Novecento Italiano exhibition in Milan. He also exhibited in Venice , Zurich and Paris . In 1931, invited by the Parisian art critic Jerzy Waldemar Jarociński (Waldemar George, 1893-1970), he showed his works at the exhibition of Italian painters in the Salon de l'Escalier in Paris. In 1934 he went on a trip around the world, stopping in Fiji , then crossing the United States . He wrote travelogues for La Stampa , which appeared in a 1935 book called L'altra America .

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SURNAME Paresce, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paresce, Renato Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist, painter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Carouge
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1937
Place of death Paris