Enrico Paulucci | |
---|---|
![]() Enrico Paulucci, Senza titolo, 1955-59 | |
Born | Enrico Paulucci delle Roncole October 13, 1901 |
Died | August 22, 1999 | (aged 97)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater |
|
Movement | Expressionism, Gruppo dei Sei |
Spouse |
Teresa Maccagno
(
m. 1939; died 1999) |
Parent(s) | Paolo Paulucci and Amalia Paulucci (née Mondo) |
Patron(s) |
Enrico Paulucci or Paulucci delle Roncole (1901–1999) was an Italian painter and scenic designer. He was one of the founding members of the Gruppo dei Sei. [1]
Born in Genoa in 1901, Enrico Paulucci moved to Turin in 1911, where he graduated in economics in 1924 and in law in 1927. [1] He was briefly associated with the Turin group of “second generation” Futurists which included the painters Fillìa, Enrico Prampolini and Ugo Pozzo. [2]
In the mid-1920s he met Felice Casorati, one of the most important artistic personalities in Turin at the time. In 1928 he moved to Paris, where he resided for nearly a year. [3] In the same year one of his paintings was chosen for the Venice Biennale. [1]
By 1929 he was back in Turin, where he founded the " Gruppo dei Sei" ("Group of the Six") along with his friends Jessie Boswell, Gigi Chessa, Nicola Galante, Carlo Levi and Francesco Menzio. [4] The group looked for intellectual freedom and independence, at odds with the dominant Fascist ideology. It was championed by Riccardo Gualino, a wealthy patron of the arts, and by the art critics Edoardo Persico and Lionello Venturi, signers of the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals of 1925 and one of the few public figures who had refused to swear allegiance to the regime in 1931. [5]
Through Persico, Paulucci contributed several articles for the monthly architectural magazine Casabella. [1] His paintings from this period show his interest in expressionist art, especially the work of Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy. [3]
The first joint exhibition of the "Gruppo dei Sei" took place in the spring of 1929 at Galleria Guglielmi in Turin. [6] Although each artist had an individual style, they were linked together by the influence of Parisian post-impressionism and fauvism, including the work of Amedeo Modigliani, and their anti-fascist ideology – a position that set them apart from other movements like Novecento Italiano and Futurism. In 1930 and 1931, exhibitions of the "Gruppo dei Sei" took place in Paris, London, and Rome. [1]
In the early 1930s, Paulucci founded, together with Casorati, the "studio Casorati-Paulucci," which also served as an art gallery. In 1931, together with his friend Carlo Levi (soon to be exiled to Aliano for his anti-fascist views), Paulucci designed the film settings for Gennaro Righelli's comedy "Patatrac", one of the first Italian sound films. [1] In the 1930s he befriended the American poet Ezra Pound, then sojourned in Rapallo. Paulucci made a sketch of the poet as he promenaded the seafront. [7]
In 1940, Paulucci took up the position of professor of painting at the Accademia Albertina of Turin. [8] In 1948, he realized the scenery and costumes for Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d'Orphée, staged at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Paulucci was appointed director of the Albertina in 1954. [9] In 1963, he was appointed president of the Italian Committee of the International Association of Plastic Arts. [1] A special show of his work was staged for him at the XXVIII Venice Biennale.
Enrico Paulucci died in Turin in 1999. [1]
Hawards | |
![]() |
Gold Medal of Merit for Culture and Art |