Wladimiro Tulli

Tulli Wladimiro

Macerata 1922 – 2003, è stato un pittore italiano.Wladimiro Tulli nasce il 4 settembre 1922 a Macerata. Trascorre l’infanzia e l’adolescenza a contatto con la natura; svolge mestieri diversi, il cordaio, il fabbro, il falegname. Il 29 giugno 1937, ancora studente all’Istituto tecnico commerciale, ascolta per la prima volta a Recanati un intervento poetico di Filippo Tommaso Marinetti su Giacomo …

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Béla Uitz

Uitz Béla

(English)Béla Uitz (8 March 1887, Mehála, Kingdom of Hungary (today part of Timișoara, Romania) – 26 January 1972, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian painter and communist activist. In 1907 he studied at the Hungarian National School of Applied Arts before moving on to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1908.1 In 1917 he joined the editorial team of MA.2 …

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Felix Vallotton

Vallotton Felix

(French)Félix Vallotton, né à Lausanne, le 28 décembre 1865 et mort à Paris, le 29 décembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, graveur, illustrateur, sculpteur, critique d’art et romancier franco-suisse. Félix Vallotton est né le 28 décembre 1865 à Lausanne, d’une famille bourgeoise protestante. Il est le frère de Paul Vallotton. En 1882, il entre à l’Académie Julian à Paris, aux …

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Theo van Doesburg

van Doesburg Theo

(English)Utrecht, 1883-Davos, 1931Theo van Doesburg, whose real name was Emil Marie Küpper, was one of the key figures in the development of Dutch Neo-Plasticism in both painting and architecture. A self-taught artist, during the early years he painted in a naturalist and Impressionist style and became influenced by the work of Wassily Kandinsky in 1914. During this period, Van Doesburg …

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Edmond van Dooren

van Dooren Edmund

(English)Antwerp 1896 – 1965. Telling his story means telling the art history of his time, but also the history of ideas, of people, of society during the turning point that was the beginning of the 20th century. On September 14, 1918, Jozef Peeters and Edmond Van Dooren created the group ‘Moderne Kunst’ in Antwerp. The Congress of Modern Art that …

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Verzetti Libero

Torino 1906 – Genova 1989, fu un pittore ligure.Ha studiato all’Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, divenendone, poi, Accademico di merito nel 1938. Fu uno dei fondatori del Gruppo Futurista Sintesi (la cui prima mostra si svolse nel 1931). Insieme a lui numerosi altri pittori: Dino Gambetti, Alf Gaudenzi, Luciano Lombardo, Tullio Mazzotti (ceramista), Giacomo Picollo, Lelio Pierro. Pittore paesaggista, marinista, …

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Edward Wadsworth

Wadsworth Edward Alexander

(English)(b Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, 29 Oct. 1889; d London, 21 June 1949). British painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and designer. A friend of Wyndham Lewis, he was a member of the Vorticist group (1914–15); his work of this time included completely abstract pictures such as the stridently geometrical Abstract Composition (1915, Tate, London). In the First World War he worked on designing dazzle …

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Max Weber

Weber Max

(English)Max Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, “the finest canvas of his Cubist phase,” …

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Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

(English)Percy Wyndham Lewis, the son of Captain Charles Edward Lewis, was born in Amehurst, Nova Scotia on 18th November, 1882. His father had been educated at West Point and had fought in the American Civil War. In 1893 the couple separated and his mother returned to England where she had been born. Lewis was educated at Rugby School. His growing …

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Rougena Zatkova - Signora X

Zatkova Rougena (Signora X)

Praga 1885 – Leysin 1923, è stata una pittrice e scultrice ceca, esponente del futurismo. Di origine boema, compie gli studi artistici tra Praga e Monaco di Baviera e dal 1906 vive in Italia. Nel 1914 partecipa alla “serata degli intonarumori” organizzata a Milano in casa Marinetti, dove ha occasione di conoscere, oltre a Russolo e altri futuristi, anche Stravinskij, …

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