Roberto Crippa

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Tomb of Roberto Crippa on the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan

Roberto Crippa (born May 17, 1921 in Monza , † March 19, 1972 in Milan ) was an Italian painter .

Roberto Crippa attended the “ Accademia di Brera ” in Milan from 1947 to 1948 and studied with Aldo Carpi , Carlo Carrà and Achille Funi .

Life

Roberto Crippa, 1955.

His first works are inspired by the work of Pablo Picasso and Cubism . Later he found his own visual language: In 1946 he painted his “spirals”, which are influenced by “surrealistic automatism”. Roberto Crippa was one of the first representatives of “action painting”. Roberto Crippa's first exhibition took place in 1947 in the "Galerie Bergamini" in Milan. They were enthusiastically inspected by Lucio Fontana , who also purchased a “spiral” and invited Crippa to join the artist movement “Spazialismo” (also: “Movimento Spaziale” - Fontana wanted to combine concrete art with experimental and provocative methods of Dadaism .) Crippa took part in the Milan Triennale in 1948 and in the Venice Biennale from 1948 to 1954 .

He undertook a series of study trips that brought him to Paris and to contacts with Victor Brauner and to New York City for artistic exchange with Max Ernst and Marcel Duchamp .

In 1954 he exhibited again at the Venice Biennale and the X Triennale in Milan and New York. In 1955 he was a participant in documenta 1 in Kassel. In 1956 he exhibited again at the Venice Biennale (as in 1958, as well as in 1964 and 1968 with his own room), and also in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Amsterdam, Madrid, Paris and Rome. In 1957 he visited New York, London and Buenos Aires. In the 1960s his works were shown worldwide.

Roberto Crippa was also an international art pilot. He died in a plane crash near Milan in 1972.

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SURNAME Crippa, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Monza , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1972
Place of death Milan , Italy