Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla ( born July 18, 1871 in Turin, † March 1, 1958 in Rome) was an Italian painter of Futurism.
Life and work
After a short study at the Albertina in Turin Balla moved to Rome in 1895. 1900/ 01 he lived in Paris and came to terms with the Divisionist technique of Neo-Impressionists.
After a 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote his " Futurist Manifesto " signed, he wrote in 1910 together with his students, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini, the "Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painters ". In 1912 he signed with the same artists calling "The exhibitors at the audience " for the Futurist exhibition in Berlin. With his own works, he participated in 1913 at the "Mostra Futurista " in Rome, in the exhibition " Italian Painters and Sculptors Futrist " of Rotterdamsche Kunstring in Rotterdam and finally in the same year at Herwarth Walden 's First German Autumn Salon in Berlin. The representation of temporal processes, dynamics and rhythm in an image was the target of much of his work.
An order for a mural led him in the years 1912-1914 after repeated Dusseldorf. In 1917, he endowed the sets for the Ballets Russes of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev. Balla took part in documenta 1 (1955 ) in Kassel, his works were also shown posthumously at the documenta 8 in 1987.