footsteps of Modigliani, among Gallarate From Paris and
An exhibition pays tribute to the most important Italian painters at the turn of two centuries. The opportunity to discover the province of Lombardy and France Montparnasse dreaming of ways.
E 'with a tribute to Amedeo Modigliani, the Prince of Montparnasse or the most "cursed" in Tuscany, depending on your point view, the new
Gallery of Modern Art and Contemporary Gallarate, inaugurates its new headquarters museum.
The occasion is one of those greedy to take advantage of good weather for a short trip for those who live in Milan and surrounding area to visit an exhibition that promises to be of great charm and a city, Gallarate, whose history dates in Gallic origins to become centuries even in the capital of the Austrian provinces of Lombardy and later home of the renaissance romance, at least as well as remember that forgotten nineteenth-century novel by Gerolamo Rovetta inspired by the brothers Joseph and Pompeo Castelli owners of the famous "Renaissance of the pharmacy."
Therefore, these 50 beautiful designs from the greatest museums and the largest collections of Italian and
international, and more than 250 original documents that trace the life of the great artist in this year
use the 90 years after his death. E '12 July 1884, when at Livorno, in Rome at number 38, born Eugenia Garsin and Flaminio Modigliani, Amedeo, the future ways, the most important of the Italian painters at the turn of the century. His father Flaminio, Rome is a merchant from Romagna, and his mother Eugenia boasts native French and Tunisians, as well as a descent from the philosopher Spinoza.
Both parents are Jewish and carry in their blood the seed of the oldest Jewish tradition Mediterranean.
Amedeo is the last of four brothers, Emmanuel, the eldest, a lawyer, will become deputy socialist
Margaret, the second, which will remain in the family, will become the adoptive mother of Jeanne, the daughter of Amedeo
and finally, Umberto third child, a mining engineer. The early years of life you have only small Amedeo memories scattered mainly taken from the diary of her mother and the reconstruction of the family environment
Modigliani, arrived in the city away to the half of 800, after the proclamation of the republic
Roman took place February 9, 1849 and Garsin, moved from Tunisia to the already Livorno
late eighteenth century.
Amedeo, the small Dedo, despite economic difficulties, spent his childhood happily cared for by her mother Eugenia, and his grandfather Isaac, who is remembered by his granddaughter Joan Modigliani, like a nice man , elegant, educated and "devourer of books." Grandfather Isaac knows several foreign languages, including some 'Arabic and English, and enjoys long walks along the ditches to the port, speaking of his experience and imparting life lessons to the little, who listens and down with the old a strong bond. This attitude of reflection, Dedo was nicknamed "the philosopher" is so absorbed in listening to and participating in long discussions with his grandfather that gradually takes the place of an absent father more. When Isaac died in 1894, Amedeo sinks into a state of deep sadness, perhaps the first cut, an early sign of pain that life will always keep in Serbia since the disease first.
the summer of 1895, the mother wrote in her diary: "Dedo had a severe pleurisy, and I have not yet recovered from the terrible fear that I did. The character of this child is still not enough because format I can say here's my opinion. His manners are those of a spoiled child who does not lack intelligence. We will see later what is in this chrysalis. Perhaps an artist? "
What Dedo stepped in that summer of '95 then it's all written in this exhibition which promises to be one of the most interesting of the spring that has just unfolded and that seems promising. Among typhoid fever and other diseases Modigliani gets back after a trip to Italy in the most healthy and stimulating its Livorno, to a stop in Venice in 1903 as a student of the Academy of Fine Arts but his fate is not in our country, it takes more to satisfy the desire for novelty, which corrodes in the young painter. France, or better, Paris is the ideal and there in the winter of 1906 that comes renting a studio in the Rue Cauliancourt in Montmartre, next to the Bateau Lavoir, now the area of \u200b\u200bmeeting Picasso, Salmon, Max Jacob and other upcoming revelations.
Les Anglais is a beautiful man, fascinated by its elegance, its ways of doing things. E 'courted by crowds of women and
reads Dante in memory. Dr Paul Alexandre, became his biggest collector and connoisseur,
doing expose for the first time in 1907 at the Salon des Indipendants. From that moment on, the doors flung open the French capital appear to the artist becomes a great friend of the Rumanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and is repeated the following year at the Salon with a beautiful painting, "The Jew" and then again in 1910 with non-stop three other masterpieces, "The cello player," "The Beggar of Livorno" and "beggar."
in 1912 at the prestigious Salon d'Automne for the first time with eight sculptures. The subject they like, it suits his character begins to show increasingly fierce competition and with life. Alcohol, drugs and anxiety
become famous not befit his health is still poor. And that is why in 1913 is planning a summer holiday in his Livorno with the idea to dedicate himself to sculpture. They start the fascinating and most difficult years of its existence.
With the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 lost his patron Paul Alexandre and knows the English poet Beatrice Hastings, with whom he will live to a thunderous two years. Finally starts to sell the first pictures thanks to the knowledge of the dealer Paul Guillaume. In 1917 he became a close friend of the Polish poet Léopold Zboroswki, comes with Soutine and makes great drinks with Utrillo. These were the years when he began to paint nudes, beautiful women curvy, the elongated necks, faces the soft and sweet as that of Jeanne Hebuterne, nineteen year old student of the Academie Colarossi, with whom he falls in love and I decided to live together.
E '1918 and the war is on the outskirts of Paris, the health of ways and increasingly frail and Jeanne remained
pregnant: there is no time to lose, needs to be done quickly, and so the friend Zboroswky sends the two lovers away from the bombing in the Riviera, between Nice and Cagnes where born the little Jeanne. Finally he returned to Paris, Jeanne is pregnant again, the light in the south has his palette lightened, but not his mind that it is increasingly a prisoner of alcohol and disease. He died January 24, 1920 Charity Hospital of murmuring, they say, "Dear, dear Italy. The follow his companion in the night between Sunday and Monday, falling from a window in her parents' house.
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