(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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(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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(English)Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova was born on 5 November 1894 in Kovno (today Kaunas) in Lithuania. Her artistic path began in 1910 at the Kazan School of Art where she met Alexander Rodchenko, a student of that same school, who became her life-long companion. Together with Rodchenko, the artist moved to Moscow in 1912 and continued her apprenticeship attending the Stroganov …
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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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(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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(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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(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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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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Libero Altomare (nome d’arte voluto da Marinetti per Remo Mannoni, 1883-1966) iniziò la sua carriera letteraria nell’alveo dannunziano: con una piccola raccolta di versi stampata in proprio nel 1908, Rime dell’Urbe e del Suburbio, e una rivista letteraria (‘Primo Vere’) che non ebbe successo. La sua seconda raccolta, Procellarie, stampata nel 1909 e inviata a Marinetti, gli aprì invece le …
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Verona 1840 – Castelrotto 1910, è stato un poeta italiano. Inizia, appena adolescente, a buttar giù versi con l’incoraggiamento del padre Cesare, anch’egli poeta, alla cui morte per suicidio, nel 1858, è affidato alla tutela dell’altro noto poeta e amico di famiglia, Aleardo Aleardi, che lo iscrive alla facoltà di legge dell’Università di Padova. Dal 1859 prosegue gli studi a …
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