Vinicio Berti

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Vinicio Berti (* 1921 in Florence , Italy; † 1991 ibid.) Was an Italian painter , illustrator , caricaturist and comic artist . He was one of the founders of the "abstract classical Florentines" and was one of the most important Italian artistic personalities of the post-war period.

biography

Berti made his debut as a painter in the early forties with works of "real expressionist painting". In 1945, together with the artists Bruno Brunetti , Fernando Farulli , Gualtiero Nativi and the poet Alberto Caverni , he founded the newspaper Torrente , with a revolutionary cultural orientation and with the participation of leading protagonists of the innovative art of Italy . After a short artistic phase from 1945 to 1947 with works in the drawing style of Cubism and Futurism , he devoted himself to abstract painting from 1947. Together with the artists Con Brunetti , Alvaro Monnini , Nativi and Mario Nuti , the movement founded Astrattismo classico (Classical Abstraction) and wrote a manifesto for it in 1950 . Between 1951 and 1956 he created a whole series of works that he himself defined as an "expansion of classical abstraction". In the 1960s he also made several graphics in this style. In 1963 he was awarded the Il Fiorino art prize in Florence . In the 1970s and 1980s, until his death in 1991, Vinicio Berti continued his artistic work with the same great commitment and at a high quality level. Many of the works he created can now be seen as sights in Florence in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Florence) (Gallery of Contemporary Art) at the Lungarno delle Grazie and in the Galleria Numero .

Parallel to his work as a painter, he worked in publications, mostly for children as an illustrator and caricaturist for magazines and as a cartoonist. He made his debut in this field in 1947 with his drawn version of " Pinocchio ". In the decades that followed, he illustrated the stories of characters such as Gian Burrasca and Ciondolino . For the Italian communist daily L'Unità and its weekly children's supplement Il Pioniere developed and drawn the cartoon characters Chiodino ( Ferri ) and Atomino , based on stories by the Italian writer Marcello Argilli , who also worked for this publisher. The Atomino comic was published as a weekly serial until 1965. The Atomino comic was later published in Italy by Berti and Argilli in book form or comic album form and from 1969 to 1974 in a second series in the weekly supplement, as well as with the Similar name: Pioneers of the women's magazine Noi Donne , continued once more. In the GDR , reprinting of this comic began in 1964 in the children's magazine FRÖSI, sometimes in a different form, and later it was added as supplements to this magazine in piccolo format . Argilli's stories were also published in the GDR with his illustrations as a novel by Kinderbuchverlag Berlin .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Atomino , illustrations by Vinicio Berti, novel by Marcello Argilli and translated by Egon Wiszniewsky , Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1970, 172 pp.
  • Le avventure di Chiodino , illustrations by Vinicio Berti, texts by Marcello Argilli , Mondadori publishing house, Milan 1974
  • Carlo Pirovano, La pittura in Italia: Il Novecento / 2: 1945-1990 , Pirovano, author: Electa, Milan 1993, Berti, Vinicio, ISBN 88-435-3982-5
  • El Diario De Gian Tormenta / the Diary (El Barco De Vapor) , illustrations by Vinicio Berti, Ediciones SM, Madrid 1999, ISBN 978-8434868243
  • Vinicio Berti. Espansione dell'astrattismo classico , Vinicio Berti (author, works of art and illustrations), Galleria Spriano publishing house, Rome 1988
  • Vinicio Berti. Dipinti e disegni , art catalog 1940-1991 by Vinicio Berti, Giunti publishing house Rome 2000, ISBN 978-8809017320
  • Vinicio Berti nel segno A - H per il 2000 e oltre , 2000 ISBN 978-8883045462
  • Astrattismo classico. 1947-1950 , Open Art publishing house, Rome 2002
  • Vinicio Berti. Diari e letture (1942-1952) , Varia Verlag, ISBN 978-8850001200
  • Le avventure di Pinocchio (The story of Burattino) , illustrations by Vinicio Berti, Città di Terni publisher, Rome 2002
  • Vinicio Berti. Pittura totale , with works of art and illustrations by Vinicio Berti1 - 1949-1991, Spazio Tempo publishing house, Rome 2003

Exhibitions

  • Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, 1947)
  • Rassegna Nazionale d'Arte ( Rome , 1947)
  • Arte Astratta e concreta in Italy , Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome, 1951)
  • The Parker Exhibition of the Contemporary Italian Painting , exhibition on contemporary Italian painting with Vinicio Berti ( New York , 1959)
  • Palazzo Vecchio (Florence, 1981 )
  • Vinicio Berti. Dipinti, disegni (1941-1981), paintings and drawings in the Palazzo dei Congressi (Florence, 1984), curator Alessandro Lazzeri
  • Quadriennale di Roma, XI Quadriennale (Rome, 1986)
  • Vinicio Berti. Espansione dell'astrattismo classico. Dipinti 1951-1987 , Palazzo Strozzi-La Strozzina, (Florence, 1987), curators Alessandro Lazzeri and Claudio Spadoni
  • Centro d'arte Spaziotempo (Florence, 2001)
  • Palazzo della Permanente (Milan, 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pirovano 1993, Vinicio Berti, p. 625. harv s
  2. ↑ Atomino in Italy - The original series on http://ddr-comics.de/atominoi.htm
  3. ^ Carlo Pirovano, La pittura in Italy: Il Novecento / 2: 1945-1990, Pirovano, author: Electa, Milan 1993, Berti, Vinicio, ISBN 88-435-3982-5
  4. ↑ http://www.clausmoser.com/?p=1349
  5. ↑ Atomino - The Piccolos at http://ddr-comics.de/atominop.htm
  6. ↑ Atomino - The book editions on http://ddr-comics.de/atominob.htm
personal data
SURNAME Berti, Vinicio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, illustrator, comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 1991
Place of death Florence