Alberto Magnelli
Subtitle: pionnier de l'abstraction
By: Daniel Abadie
Contributors: Magnelli, Alberto, 1888-1971; Musée d'Ixelles; Musée des beaux-arts (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland)
Publisher: Racine
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bruxelles
Language: fre
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9782873868444
Subjects: Exhibitions; Painters; Biography; Abstract Painting
Description: Alberto Magnelli was the pioneer of abstraction and prompted a new approach to this artist and analysis of his work. This book helps to discover how the young Magnelli (who painted his first painting in 1907) first found his way between Cubism and Futurism and his binding of friendship in 1913 with Balla, Severini, Boccioni and Carra. The next years after, during a trip to Paris he became friends with Picasso, Leger, Archipenko... but also with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire. Rejecting the fascist drift of Italy, he moved to France in 1931 and registered with the Stones, among the major initiators of abstraction to ratings Kandinsky, Arp or Hartung, who become close friends.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Feb. 21-May 26, 2013, and at Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, July 7-Oct. 20, 2013.