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Angelo Frattini (10 November 1910 – 2 September 1975) was an Italian sculptor from Varese. He studied at Brera Academy and his first contacts with sculptural art were influenced by Scapigliatura's teachings. He also exhibited his works in New York and Washington DC, where he was received by president Lyndon Johnson. Angelo Frattini died in Varese on September 2, 1975. In 1978 the artistic lyceum of his hometown was named after him. == Life == Born in Varese on November 10, 1910, Angelo Frattini became an orphan at the age of 9. His artistic formation took place initially in Naples and subsequently in Milan. Frattini served his Italian military service in Naples, where he attended Giovanni De Martino’s evening classes and got to know Gemito’s sculpture. In Naples he also frequented the Galleria d’Arte Moderna and the National Archeological Museum. For most of his youth he was self-taught, and was influenced by the end of ‘800’s art. In 1925 he was a student of Giuseppe Motta’s evening class and with his friend Flaminio Bertoni carved some small low reliefs at Campo dei Fiori. When he went back to Milan in 1931 he studied at the Artistic Lyceum and then at the Academy of Brera, where he attended Francesco Messina’s class. Varese was the background-city for his artistic growth from the 1930s. In 1934 he married Maria Gervasini, who gave birth the next year to their first son, Gianluigi. His first contact with the art of sculpture follows Giuseppe Grandi and the Scapigliatura’s teachings. He shared his contemporaneity with friends who were poets, writers, painters, sculptors and actors such as Piero Chiara, Vittorio Sereni, Giuseppe Montanari, Aldo Patocchi, Luciano Ferriani, Paolo Conti, Aldo Carpi, Renato Guttuso and Gianni Santuccio. Widowed since 1953, in 1961 he married Magda Lazzari, mother of his third daughter, born in 1963. Angelo Frattini died in Varese, while the first anthological exhibition at Villa Mirabello was getting prepared. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angelo Frattini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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