Remo Brindisi

Remo Brindisi ( born April 25, 1918 in Rome, † July 25, 1996 in Comacchio ) was an Italian painter, sculptor, art collector and museum founder.

Life

Remo Brindisi was born as the eighth child of a family of eleven children in Rome. He studied in Pescara, L'Aquila and Rome and attended the Art Academy in Urbino. During World War II he was a soldier in a unit that was stationed near the Adriatic Sea in northern Italy. After the war, he turned to abstract art. One of his first creations are abstract sculptures, which he carved from wood. The same time he began to collect works of well-known representatives of all art movements of modern art, including Dadaism, including sculptures by Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka and Salvador Dalí, ceramic vessels by Pablo Picasso as well as numerous oil paintings and collages of famous artists from Europe, Asia and America. The Collectibles he exchanged partly for his own works -in.

In the 1960s, he moved from Milan to Lido di Spina to, one belonging to the municipality of Comacchio resort where he was able in 1976 to fulfill his lifelong dream to open a museum for modern art, the Casa Museo Remo Brindisi, Via N. Pisano 45, Lido di Spina. To the architecturally idiosyncratic designed three-storey building, whose spacious staircase is tiled throughout white, has a small art park in the abstract sculptures are erected and in which, during the bathing season in cooperation with the municipality of Comacchio regular cultural events such as musical performances, poetry lectures, book presentations, talk shows and other meetings take place.

As Remo Brindisi died in 1996 at the age of 78 years, his art collection included about one thousand objects.

The commune of Comacchio fulfilled his wish to be allowed to be buried on his own estate in Lido di Spina. Brindisi's tomb is located in the small garden and founder of the museum, which had also been his place of work and where today his studio, which can be viewed there as well.