Serge Brignoni

Serge Brignoni ( born October 12, 1903 in San Simone di Vacallo above Chiasso; † 6 January 2002 Zollikofen \ Bern ) was a painter, sculptor and collector.

Life

Born in San Simone di Vacallo above Chiasso, Brignonis parents moved to Bern in 1907. First artistic training at Victor Surbek, then. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin- Charlottenburg From 1923 lives and Brignoni worked in Paris at the Academy of Andre Lothe. Building a collection of aussereropäischer art.

The Second World War forced a sharp decline in his work. 1940 Brignoni was forced to leave Paris and return to Bern; a large part of his left behind in Paris Pictures was destroyed during the war or went missing. In Bern, which faced the Contemporary Art adverse, Brignoni struggling with major problems which he overcame with a new orientation to surreal and metaphysical compositions, which can also detect landscape elements to some extent.

Brignoni is an important representative of the avant-garde of the 20th century. He died in 2002 in Zollikofen near Bern.

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