Emanuele Luzzati
Emanuele Luzzati, also called Lele ( born June 3, 1921 in Genoa, † January 26, 2007 ibid ), was an Italian painter, printmaker, stage designer, illustrator and animator. His animated short films Pulcinella and La gazza ladra were each nominated for an Oscar.
Life and work
Emanuele Luzzati was born in 1921 in Genoa. Since his father was a Jew and the Italian Government introduced in the late 1930s anti-Semitic racial laws, the family left Italy and moved to Switzerland. There Luzzati visit to a secondary school was possible and as he graduated from Lausanne to study at the École des Beaux -Arts. In Lausanne he came, among others, works by director Louis Jouvet and stage designer Christian Bérard in touch. His path in life was set designer claims to be, as he was present at rehearsals for the reopening performance of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat piece 1945. The performance was characterized by a stylized stage set Luzzati took as a model. He then began to experiment with masks and effects. Together with his childhood friend Alessandro heels (1911-2001) he led in 1944 his first play Solomon and the Queen of Sheba at the Lausanne central station on. This Luzzati designed the stage set and heel directed. After the Second World War, they returned to Italy and showed the piece in Genoa and Milan.
1947 brought Luzzati and heel her second piece on the stage, the adaptation of a Hebrew legend, titled Lea Lebowitz. This Luzzati put a mask and first used fantasy elements. In 1950 he was engaged by Vittorio Gassman, who had seen Lea Lebowitz, as masks and costume designer for a production of Peer Gynt. It was followed by numerous other jobs. Luzzati was finally settled in Genoa. He was co-founder of Eleonora Duse Theatre, later the Municipal Theatre of Genoa. Director Aldo Trionfo (1921-1989), the Luzzati already knew from Lausanne, conducted from 1957 to 1960 in a café in Genoa, the avant-garde theater group La borsa di Arlecchino, who had committed to the theater of the absurd. Here Luzzati brought as a set and costume designer, and developed his own style. Increasingly, he used cars and randomly found materials to design. The costumes he tailored at home, sometimes assisted by his mother.
In the 1960s, Luzzati collaborated with director Franco Enriquez ( 1927-1980 ). With him and the two actors Valeria Moriconi and Glauco Mauri ( born 1930 ), he formed the so-called La Compagnia dei Quattro, the numerous classical and contemporary pieces aufführte how. Among others, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Together with Enriquez Luzzati made first experiences with the staging of operas. So he designed in 1963 the set of The Magic Flute at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. After that, he was involved in numerous other opera productions, with a particular interest was Rossini's works. In addition to other performances at the Glyndebourne Festival and in the leading Italian houses, he worked for the Vienna State Opera, the Chicago Opera House and the London Festival Ballet.
Operas were Luzzati as models for his animated films he produced often with Giulio Gianini ( 1927-2009 ). Your animated short films La gazza ladra and Pulcinella in 1966 and 1974 respectively for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nomination. In addition, Luzzati illustrated thematically appropriate picture books, including the Magic Flute (1971 ) and a humoristic version of Cinderella ( 1976). The latter was also performed on a 1976 founded in Genoa by Luzzatti experimental theater Teatro della Tosse. In total, he illustrated more than 400 books, mostly children's literature.
Luzzati died at the age of 85 of a heart attack. He was buried in the monumental cemetery Staglieno.
An extensive exhibition on Luzzatis plant is located in the Museo Luzzati in Genoa.