Ernesto Bazzaro

Ernesto Bazzaro ( born March 29, 1859 in Milan, † May 18, 1937 ) was an Italian sculptor.

Bazzaros father was an antique dealer, his brother Leonardo Bazzaro painter. Ernesto Bazzaro studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Francesco Barzaghi, Ambrogio Borghi and Lorenzo Vela. He was influenced mainly by the sculptor Giuseppe Grandi and the painter Daniele Ranzoni and Tranquillo Cremona. In 1881 he won an award for his Sordello and 1884 he created a Garibaldi Monument in Monza. Among his earliest successful works outside the academy La belongs vedova ( The Widow ) from 1886 / 88th Social connotations can be found in several of his early works, such as the disabled and exploitation.

His works of the early phase are picturesque and lively, such as the monument to Ermenegildo Castiglioni of 1897. Response to protest, thrusting his scantily clad group of figures for the tomb of liqueur producer Stefano Branca in Milan, which he created in the years 1897-1900. In 1908 it was dismantled and replaced by a more conventional work of Michele Vedani. For Pasquale Crespi, he created a mausoleum that was committed to the literary symbolism and showed the cycle of human life. It has references to Foscolo.

Among his most famous works is the monument to Felice Cavallotti in Milan. It was before the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana in Piazza della Rosa ( Today. : Piazza Pio XI) in 1906 set up, but not pushed in all the viewers on reciprocal love, and in 1943 was moved to another location.

Bazzaro worked mainly in Milan, where he also created decorations on buildings, but also in Varese, Lecco, Como, Monza and Cremona.

Among his pupils was Lilli KERZINGER -Werth.