Marino Marini (sculptor)
Marino Marini ( born February 27, 1901 in Pistoia; † August 6, 1980 in Viareggio ) was an Italian artist who was initially operated primarily as a sculptor, and later as a graphic designer.
Life
Marini studied from 1917 painting and sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Florence, among other things, with the sculptor Domenico Trentacosta. In 1928 a first stay in Paris. In 1929 he took a teaching position at the Art School of the Villa Reale in Monza, near Milan, which he held until 1940. In the following years he traveled frequently to Paris, where he among other things, the acquaintance with Giorgio de Chirico, Wassily Kandinsky, and Aristide Maillol and where he later Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Henri Laurens met. Stays in England, Germany and Greece followed.
1940 moved Marini at the Accademia di Brera in Milan; the years 1941-1946 he spent in Ticino in Switzerland, where he met Alberto Giacometti, Fritz Wotruba and Germaine Richier. In 1946 he returned to Milan. In 1950 he traveled on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in New York for the first time in the United States; she found in the Buchholz Gallery, directed by Curt Valentin, instead. Marinis conveyor Valentin died in 1954 during a visit to Marini's home in Forte dei Marmi.
Marino Marini took part in documenta 1 (1955), Documenta II ( 1959), and also the documenta III in Kassel in 1964. Large retrospectives of his work were seen in 1962 in Zurich and in Rome in 1966.
Marino Marini died on August 6, 1980 79 years in Viareggio.
Work
A significant part of his work deals with the topic of " Horse and Man" apart. Marini created a large quantity of sculptures (such as the front of the entrance of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich standing sculpture ), which he painted in part.
A wider circle he is known for his vividly colored lithographs made in the 1960s and 1970s. Most he created cycles (such as " Marini from Goethe " or " Marini from Shakespeare" ) with a specific motif ( about person standing with one or two horses ), which he changed color.