Willy Andergassen

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Willy Andergassen (born December 7, 1922 in South Tyrol , Italy ; † July 13, 2001 in Casal Palocco - Rome , Italy), was an Italian artist .

Professional activities

At the age of twenty, Andergassen took part in the Second World War as a pilot . After 1945 he was employed by the newly founded LAI (Linee Aree Italiane). Through professional achievement and success he reached the rank of commander of the jumbo jet ( Boeing 747 ) at Alitalia .

Artistic activity

In his spare time he began to be interested in another limitless world. His great interest was in the world under the microscope . In the 1960s he set up a technically perfectly equipped gemology - photography - studio near Rome . Through artistic photography he tried to immortalize the extraordinary aesthetics of precious gemstones . He tried to pick up the stones from their inner world. This was a new perspective on photography. Through his photographic art, he tried to combine science and aesthetics .

From an artistic perspective, the photographs appear to be an expression of a magical, allegorical world that is rich in colors and shapes. Thanks to the creative use of the microscope, he was able to capture the hidden microcosm that lay inside the gemstones on paper. His artistic expression and consistent style of his recordings remain unique.

media

Teodoro Mercuri (director), Willy Andergassen (text): Precious stones and their inner life, Heidelberg (among others) 1995, VHS, 29 min, ISBN 3-86025-814-1 .
Andergassen, Willy: Caratteristiche internal delle gemme, Cavalese 1996.

Sources and web links

  • Video of Willy Andergassen on YouTube [1]
  • Fondazione Andergassen, Milan [2]