Ugo Giannattasio

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Ugo Giannattasio (born February 8, 1888 in Rome ; died June 7, 1958 in Turin ) was an Italian painter, writer and art critic.

Life

Ugo Giannattasio's father was an Italian diplomat who died early. Giannattasio attended the Scuola libera del nudo of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in Rome . From 1909 he stayed in Paris and made friends with Gino Severini and Arturo Ciacelli . He also took up the influences of the Fauves . In 1911 he sought contact with the futurists in Paris, among whom Umberto Boccioni and Carlo Carrà objected to his membership. In 1912 and 1913 he took part in the Salon des Indépendants . In 1913 he was a signatory of the manifesto L'Antitradition futuriste, manifest synthèse , initiated by Guillaume Apollinaire . In 1913 Herwarth Walden showed three pictures by Giannattasio in the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin : La rue brutaliste , Vol planche and the portrait of the painter Severini, which is also shown in the catalog . In 1914 Walden invited him again to the gallery “Der Sturm” for an exhibition of French avant-garde. In Paris Giannattasio published the novella Les contes du dimanche in 1914 , but he could not find a publisher for his novel Gli spettacoli dell'altro mondo , written in 1919 . In April 1914 Giannattasio was finally represented with the picture Il Carosello in a broader international futurist exhibition by G. Sprovieri in the Galleria Futurista in Rome .

After the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion and after the Italian entry into the war in 1915 he was deployed as an Italian soldier in France and northern Italy and was wounded. He found lyrical forms of expression for his war experiences.

Giannattasio worked from 1918 as an art critic in Rome for the daily newspaper "Epoca". In 1920 he married Renata Vaccaro and had two daughters with her. For the director Achille Ricciardi (1888–1923) and his Teatro di colore , he designed sets with Enrico Prampolini , in which FT Marinetti decadent texts in the Teatro Argentina .

At the beginning of the 1920s he further developed the futuristic "machine art" and in the period between 1920 and 1923, like the entire Italian futurist movement under the leadership of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, he joined fascism.

Around 1922 he turned away from the futuristic painting style and finally gave up painting completely in 1935 when he was mobilized for the Italian colonial war against the Empire of Abyssinia . He only returned to Italy shortly before the outbreak of World War II. He remained a supporter of Italian war policy until Mussolini's fall in 1943, but was then recruited as a forced laborer for Germany in the Italian Social Republic in 1943 . From there he was able to escape shortly before the end of the war and return to Italy, where he settled in Turin with his wife and daughters in 1946 .

Giannattasio now turned to non-figurative, avant-garde painting and had a new creative phase in the Informel area .

literature

  • Ann-Katrin Günzel: Giannattasio, Ugo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 53, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22793-6 , p. 221 f.
  • Giovanni Giurati: Ugo Giannattasio . Imperia, Milano 1923 (Profili del Fascismo)
  • Giannattasio: oeuvres récentes. Paris: Galerie Simone Heller, 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ann-Katrin Günzel: Giannattasio, Ugo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 53, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22793-6 , p. 221 f.
  2. ^ First German Autumn Salon. Berlin 1913 . Berlin: Verl. Der Sturm, 1913, p. 18
  3. ↑ Claudia Salaris: Storia del futurismo . Riuniti, Rome 1985, p. 43
  4. ^ Günter Berghaus: Italian futurist theater: 1909 - 1944 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, p. 348
personal data
SURNAME Giannattasio, Ugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, writer and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1958
Place of death Turin