Ardengo Soffici

Ardengo Soffici ( born April 7, 1879 in Rignano sull'Arno; † August 19, 1964 in Vittoria Apuana ) was an Italian art critic, illustrator and painter of Futurism.

Life

Soffici began in 1897 at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence to study, then moved to the Scuola libera del nudo and eventually ended up in Paris where he was able to establish in 1904 as an art critic and illustrator. He got there in touch with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire and Gino Severini. In 1907 he returned temporarily back to Florence, where he became friends with Giovanni Papini, for whose newspaper articles he wrote Leonardo. From 1908 he also worked for the new literary magazine La Voce, published in many of his essays on French painting and literature. In Paris, influenced by Cubism, to Soffici developed for sharp critic of Futurism. As in 1911 in La Voce appeared a devastating critique of the Milan Futurist exhibition, it came to the punitive expedition of Marinetti, Boccioni and Carrà to Florence, in the course of which, however, the parties reconciled and worked together. In 1913 Soffici and Papini founded with Lacerba a less elitist art magazine, which soon became the principal mouthpiece of the Italian Futurists. Soffici now regularly took part in the exhibitions of the Futurists in part, his paintings, however, remained strong Cubism connected. With articles such as Cubismo e oltre and Cubismo e futurismo he tried to build a bridge between these two Kunstrichtubngen.

With the attention to Marinetti's policy, which began in 1914, was also the alienation, which found its expression in the critical articles Futurism e Marinettismo, in the 1915 addition Soffici also Papini and Palazzeschi tightened against the Milan Futurists in Lacerba to war. Marinetti was especially criticized a dilution of the artistic standards of Futurism by generous admission of new members. This also Sofficis grant ended on futurism, the last dedicated to figurative painting.

Swell

  • Maurizio Calvesi: Futurism. Munich 1975
  • Caroline Tisdall, Angelo Bozzola: Futurism. London 2000, ISBN 0-500-20159-5.
  • Christa Tree Garth: History of Futurism. Reinbek 1966
  • Hans Georg Schmidt Bergmann: Futurism - History, Aesthetics, documents. Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-55535-2.
  • Artists of Futurism
  • Italian Painter
  • Italian
  • Born in 1879
  • Died in 1964
  • Man
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