Serge Brignoni

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Serge Brignoni (born October 12, 1903 in San Simone di Vacallo above Chiasso , † January 6, 2002 in Zollikofen ) was a painter, sculptor and collector.

Life

Born in San Simone di Vacallo above Chiasso, Brignoni's parents moved to Bern in 1907. First artistic training with Victor Surbek , then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1923 Brignoni lived and worked in Paris at the Academy of Andre Lothe . Building a collection of non-European art.

The Second World War forced a slump in his work. In 1940 Brignoni was forced to leave Paris and return to Bern; a large part of the paintings he left behind in Paris were destroyed or lost during the war. In Bern, which was opposed to contemporary art , Brignoni struggled with major problems, which he overcame with a reorientation towards surreal-metaphysical compositions , some of which also reveal elements of the landscape.

In 1985 Brignoni donated the majority of his collection to the city of Lugano , creating the Museo delle Culture .

Brignoni is an important representative of the avant-garde of the 20th century. He died in Zollikofen near Bern in 2002.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: Time problems in Swiss painting and sculpture, Kunsthaus Zürich 1936. * Artisti ticinesi, Serge Brignoni (Bianco e Nero), Lugano 1953.
  • KLS, XX. Jh., Vol. 1, 1958-1961, pp. 130/131.
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Kunsthalle Bern 1964.
  • Exhibition catalog: artists, collectors. Werner and Nelly Bär, Serge Brignoni, Emile Chambon, Carl Roesch, Kunsthaus Aarau 1965.
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Kunstmuseum Bern 1969/70.
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Galleria Matasci, Tenero 1979 (with text by Serge Brignoni).
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun 1979 (with exhibition directory).
  • Exhibition catalog: New Objectivity and Surrealism in Switzerland 1915–1940, Kunstmuseum Winterthur 1979.
  • Giuseppe Curonici: Serge Brignoni, Editions Galerie «zem Specht», Basel 1980 (with bibliography and exhibition directory).
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Kunsthaus Zug 1981. (Texts by John Matheson and Oswald Petersen.) - LzSK, 1981, p. 49.
  • Marcel Joray: Swiss painter, Neuchâtel 1982.
  • Irene Meier p. 8., in: Gruppe 33 , Editions Galerie “zem Specht”, Basel 1983, pp. 217–225.
  • Annemarie Monteil: Serge Brignoni: The will to form, in: Basler Magazin (= weekend supplement of the Basler Zeitung), No. 22, June 3, 1978, p. 9 (“Composition, Plage”, color illus.).
  • Giuseppe Curonici: Serge Brignoni, Basel 1980, p. 102, (“Composition sur la plage”, color illus. 10).
  • Exhibition catalog: Hans Arp, Serge Brignoni, Hans Schiess, Kurt Seligmann, Jacques Düblin, Kunsthalle Basel 1932, no. 45 (“Personnes a la plage”).
  • Exhibition catalog: Serge Brignoni, Kunsthaus Zug 1981, No. 18 (“Composition sur la plage”).
  • Steffan Biffiger and Manuela Kahn-Rossi: Serge Brignoni. Painter and sculptor. Benteli Verlag, Bern 2003 (monograph in two language editions: German and Italian).
  • Manuela Kahn-Rossi: Serge Brignoni. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 21, 2003 , accessed January 13, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Serge Brignoni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Serge Brignoni. In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Brignoni, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter, sculptor and collector
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Chiasso
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2002
Place of death Zollikofen