Enrico Prampolini
Enrico Prampolini ( born April 20, 1894 in Modena, † June 17, 1956 in Rome) was an Italian painter, stage designer and designer of stage costumes as representatives of Futurism.
Curriculum vitae
Prampolini begins in 1912 to study painting in Rome, however, the College must soon leave again because he had turned in a futuristic manifesto against the institution of academies. Contact with Giacomo Balla in his Roman studio inspired him to Futurism, he takes part in two 1914 futuristic exhibitions in Rome. With his manifesto Scenografia e coreografia futurista his career as a stage designer and designer of stage costumes. A meeting with the Dadaist Tristan Tzara in 1916 leads to the cooperation with this art movement that comes in articles for the magazine, published in Zurich Dada and Others expressed. Incidentally, he also still together with the Futurists Luciano Folgore the magazine Avantscoperta. With the futuristic film artist Anton Giulio Bragaglia he works as a set designer for the films Perfido Incanto and Thais, the latter being the only preserved futuristic film is considered. For Marinetti spectacle Antineutralità he controls at the stage. His 1918 collaboration with Mario Recchi founded Casa d'Arte Italiana in Rome leads to numerous international contacts. These include his membership in Berlin November Group, the contacts to Theo van Doesburg and employees at the newspaper De Stijl, his acquaintances with Gropius, Mondrian, Klee, Kandinsky, Arp and Archipenko, and ( after the war ) with the artists of the galleries Neumann and The Tempest. In 1923 he wrote the Manifesto dell'arte Meccanica futurista 1924 follows a manifesto on L' atmosfera scenica futurista, both manifestos deal with the futuristic spectacle and its presentation. From 1925, he spent several years in Paris, where he met not only Braque and Picasso, but with Mario Ricotti founded the Théâtre de la pantomime Futuriste. In 1937 he returns to Italy and is dedicated to Aeropittura, after the war he engaged in informal painting.
Swell
- Ingo Bartsch / Maurizio Scudiero (ed.): " ... we also machines, we also mechanized ... " The second phase of Italian Futurism, 1915-1945 ( Bielefeld 2002) ISBN 3-933040-81-7
- 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.
- Norbert Nobis (Hg): The noise of the street - Italian Futurism 1909-1918. ( Milan 2001) ISBN 88-202-1454-7 ( exhibition catalog)