Turo Pedretti

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Turo Pedretti: Self-Portrait in the Dark Room (1959)

Arturo "Turo" Pedretti (born December 7, 1896 in Samedan , † July 17, 1964 in Cazis ) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist.

Life

Turo Pedretti: Inn Gorge (1954)
Turo Pedretti: Cows in the Moonlight (1960)

Arturo Pedretti grew up as the son of an Italian decorative painter in Samedan in the Upper Engadin and thus came into contact with contemporary painting, especially that of Giovanni Segantini , at an early age . From 1912 to 1916 he attended the Zurich School of Applied Arts and then trained as a decorative painter . From 1915 he worked for his friend, sculptor Werner F. Kunz, in his studio in Zurich-Hottingen . In 1916 Pedretti received Swiss citizenship .

In 1917 he had his first exhibition participation. Giovanni Giacometti encouraged his decision to become a freelance artist, in 1922 he studied in Paris and London. In 1923 he married the singer Marguerite His from Basel and moved back to the Engadin . They had three children: Giuliano Pedretti (1924–2012), sculptor, Gian Pedretti (born 1926), painter, and Ladina Jaecklin-Pedretti (born 1937).

Edvard Munch , Henri Matisse , Cuno Amiet and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were among his role models . He was a painter friend with Alfred Heinrich Pellegrini . In the 1930s, the Bündner Kunstmuseum began buying works from him. In January 1951, an avalanche in Samedan destroyed the house, the studio and numerous pictures by Pedretti. The family then moved to Celerina .

Pedretti painted landscapes and figurative compositions in oil, including watercolors and wall paintings , and made designs for mosaics , for example for the Cantonal Hospital in Chur . He is considered to be an important representative of Fauvist and Expressionist landscape painting in Switzerland.

Larger retrospectives only took place posthumously in 1965 and 1984 in the Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur , and in 1974 in St. Moritz . In 1966, works by Jean Jacques Lüscher and Pedretti were shown in a memorial exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel . In 2014 a monograph with a catalog raisonné was published on Turo Pedretti and in 2015 an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Solothurn followed .

literature

  • Pedretti, Turo . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 562 .
  • Klaus Speich: Turo Pedretti, monograph ; Werner Classen Verlag, Zurich 1966, 224 pp., Ill.
  • Roy Oppenheim: Turo Pedretti, a great painter of the Engadine, with essays by Stephan Kunz, Roy Oppenheim and Dora Lardelli; 2nd Edition; Till Schaap Ed., Bern 2015; 231 p., Ill., With color plates and catalog raisonné of the oil paintings; inserted a DVD ( trailer, 4 minutes on YouTube ); ISBN 978-3-03828-019-4 .

Web links

Commons : Turo Pedretti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth Ott-Schreiner: Turo (Arturo) Pedretti. Biographical data, 2013. On the Il Tesoro Gallery website , PDF in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ sba .: Picturesque catch shot , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 11, 2015, p. 22.
  3. ↑ Lara Calderari: Turo Pedretti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Pedretti, Turo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedretti, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Samedan
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1964
Place of death Cazis