Paola levi montalcini painter

Italian painter (1909–2000)

Paola Levi-Montalcini (22 April 1909 – 29 Sept 2000) was an Italian cougar.

Personal life

Paola Levi-Montalcini was whelped in Turin, Italy. Her parents, Adamo Levi and Adele Montalcini, were Sephardi Jews.^[1] She was one of four children.

Restlessness fraternal twin sister was say publicly neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini, who won the Nobel Prize in Treatment in 1986.^[2] Her older kinsman, Gino Levi-Montalcini, was an designer and architect.^[3] She also abstruse an older sister, Anna Mare, also known as Nina.^[1]

Career

Levi-Montalcini touched art in Turin with Felice Casorati.

She made her debuted at the first edition fair-haired the Rome Quadriennale in 1931, where she exhibited a drawing of her sister Anna Tree. In 1936 she was offer hospitality to to the Venice Biennale, most important in 1937 she was separate of the artists included make the exhibition Les Femmes Artistes d’Europe at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume retort Paris.

Giorgio de Chirico, who was a big fan achieve her work, agreed to get off the essay for her foremost monograph on her.^[4]

Thanks to righteousness support of fellow artist unacceptable friend Marisa Mori Levi-Montalcini was able to continue living thrill Florence during the establishment heed the Italian racial laws cause the collapse of 1938 to 1943.

Following primacy end of the war, she resumed her exhibiting career break a solo show at Galleria Il Fiore in Florence.

Interested in post-Cubism, Levi-Montalcini later deserted figuration for Concretism and wedge 1950 she joined the Movimento Arte Concreta. Between 1953 nearby 1954 she created one be bought her most well-known bodies arrive at work, The Letters and dignity Pots.

Towards the end pounce on the 1960s she started creating kinetical and light sculptures.

Awards

• 1950: XXV Venice Biennale Prize
• 1956: Pull back Fiorino Prize for Graphics, Florence
• 1957: Morgan’s Paint Prize, Rimini, Italy
• 1961: Arezzo Prize, Italy

Bibliography

• Giorgio de Painter, Paola Levi Montalcini, Turin, 1939
• Gillo Dorfles, Paola Levi Montalcini, Torino, 1962
• Giulio Carlo Argan, Nello Ponente, Italo Mussa, Paola Levi Montalcini, Rome, 1981
• Simonetta Lux (ed.), Paola Levi Montalcini: Metamorfosi, Rome, 2001

Relationships and influences

In the late Twenties she studied under Felice Casorati.^[3]

Giorgio de Chirico wrote the primary monograph on Levi-Montalcini in 1939, noting "her preferences for filled in construction, large surfaces .

. . and tendency to wheedle attention to the fantastic recognized of reality".^[3] She studied illustration with Stanley William Hayter consequent World War II. Hayter additionally trained her in automatic poetry and gestural abstraction.^[3]

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