Ulderico Fabbri

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Ulderico Fabbri (born July 2, 1897 in Ferrara ; † August 16, 1970 there ) was an Italian sculptor .

biography

He was born in Monestirolo - now a district of Ferrara - by Chiarissimo, a merchant, and Teresa Meotti. As a teenager he worked for a stonemason and attended evening courses at the “Dosso Dossi” art institute. Called to arms, he left for the Macedonian front and came back, hit by a grenade, with severe atrophy of the left hand and partial atrophy of the right hand. He received the large pension for the war disabled and in Rome, thanks to a slow and constant rehabilitation, almost completely regained the use of his hands. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma .

He creates male nudes with mutilated lower limbs: they are painful and symbolic sculptures inspired by Antonio Pollaiuolo and the Neo-Renaissance . Ulderico Fabbri is also based on Auguste Rodin and Medardo Rosso . As a versatile artist, he sometimes tends to geometrize, for example in the marble sculpture Ippogrifo , which was exhibited in Ferrara in 1928. In the artificial stone Bimbo al telefono , created in 1930, he mixes a modern element with the classic figure setting.

He sent his works: in 1931 to the international exhibition of sacred art in Padua, in 1933 to the Primaverile in Florence, in 1936 to the Venice Biennale . In 1937 his Giovinetto sculpture was acquired by the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan . In 1938 he created the marble bust of the Italian Marshal Emilio De Bono , which was originally in the so-called Corte delle Vittorie (Victory Court) and is now kept in the Casa Madre dei Mutilati in Ferrara. Other sculptures in Ferrara: the terracotta panels of the Way of the Cross in the Great Cloister of the Church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa ; Il Genio dell'Arte , a bronze sculpture on the facade of the Conservatorio Girolamo Frescobaldi (1930); the gilded bronze Narciso fountain in the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce (1964); the neo-Renaissance terracotta bust of the Madonna owned by the Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara (1946).

Ulderico Fabbri carved the statue of Archbishop Ruggero Bovelli in white marble, which was erected in 1955 in the Cathedral of San Giorgio di Ferrara . A commissioned work in which the artist revisits the entire academic tradition of Italian sculpture. The terracottas of recent years, which depict suffering figures with half-closed eyes in the fissure of the eyelids, oscillate between a rediscovered primitivism and the disintegration of form based on the example of Medardo Rosso.

Great cloister of the Charterhouse in Ferrara

In Flavia Franceschini's documentary Ulderico Fabbri, a sculptor from Ferrara , the film Al Filò , which was made in 1953 by the Ferrarian director Florestano Vancini, with an interview with Marcello Tassini, Ervardo Fioravanti, Giuseppe Virgili, Annibale Zucchini, Danilo Farinella, Nemes, is also featured , Galileo Cattabriga and Ulderico Fabbri in the courtyard of his studio in Via Boccaleone in Ferrara.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferrara - "Al Filò" di florestano vancini 1953 . 1st October 2018.

literature

  • Lucio Scardino: Ferrara ritrovata: 55 artisti ferraresi dell'Ottocento e del Novecento . G. Corbo, Ferrara 1984 (Italian).
  • Ulderico Fabbri, Casa G. Cini, Ferrara, December 16, 1989-14 gennaio 1990 . Interbooks, Padua 1989 (Italian).
  • Vittorio Sgarbi (Ed.): Scultura italiana del primo Novecento . Grafis Edizioni, Bologna 1993, p. 98-99 (Italian).
  • Lucio Scardino (ed.): Ulderico Fabbri (1897–1970): sculture ferraresi dagli anni '30 agli anni '50 . Liberty house, Ferrara 2015 (Italian).

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personal data
SURNAME Fabbri, Ulderico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1970
Place of death Ferrara