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Giacomo Manzù, pseudonym of Giacomo Manzoni (22 December 1908 – 17 January[1] 1991), was an Italian sculptor.

Giacomo Manzù in his studio in 1966
Giacomo Manzù in his studio in 1966
Passo di Danza, Giacomo Manzù's eleven foot bronze sculpture, modeled on his wife, in Detroit near Woodward Avenue and Fort Street
Passo di Danza, Giacomo Manzù's eleven foot bronze sculpture, modeled on his wife, in Detroit near Woodward Avenue and Fort Street

Biography


Monument to the Partisan (1977), Bergamo. Photo by Paolo Monti.
Monument to the Partisan (1977), Bergamo. Photo by Paolo Monti.

Manzù was born in Bergamo. His father was a shoemaker. Other than a few evening art classes, he was self-taught in sculpture, and later became a professor himself. He started working with wood during his military service in Veneto in 1928; later, after a short stay in Paris, he moved to Milan, where architect Giovanni Muzio commissioned him the decoration of the chapel of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (1931–1932). In 1933 he exhibited a series of busts at the Triennale di Milano, which granted him national popularity. The following year he held a personal exhibition in Rome with the painter Aligi Sassu, with whom he shared a studio.

In 1939 Manzù started a series of bronze bas-reliefs about the death of Jesus Christ; the works, exhibited in Rome in 1942, were criticized by the Fascist government and the ecclesiastical authorities. In 1940 he obtained a teaching position in the Accademia di Brera in Milan, but later he moved to the Accademia Albertina in Turin. During World War II Manzù moved to Clusone, returning to teach at Brera after the end of the conflict. He held his teaching position until 1954 when he moved to Salzburg, where he lived until 1960. Here he met Inge Schabel, his future wife, who was the model of a large number of his portraits together with her sister Sonja. He was commissioned in 1957 to design the central doors for Salzburg Cathedral, completed in bronze in 1959.[2] In 1964 he completed the "Death Gate" for the St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In the same year he moved to Ardea, near Rome, in a locality now rechristened Colle Manzù in his honor.

He created two sculptures in stiacciato at Rockefeller Center on the former Italian building in the 1960's, one titled "The Immigrant" and the other "A Fruitful Harvest".

In the late 1960s Manzù started to work also as scenographer. In 1977 he completed a "Monument to the Partisan" in Bergamo. His last great work was the 6 m-tall sculpture facing the ONU seat in New York City, inaugurated in 1989.

He was the subject of a famous photographic portrait by Yousuf Karsh.

His works are in the most prestigious museum and private collections. Although he was an atheist,[3] he was a personal friend of Pope John XXIII and had important liturgical commissions for the Vatican. In the United States, architect Minoru Yamasaki commissioned him the Passo di Danza (dance step) sculpture at the One Woodward Avenue building in Detroit.[4] He also carved the Nymph and Faun at Wayne State University's McGreagor Memorial Sculpture Garden.

Manzù died in Rome in 1991.


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References


  1. Some sources say he died on 18 January
  2. Manzù Das Salzburger Dom-Tor, Verlag Galerie Welz, 1959
  3. "Giacomo Manzu; Atheist Sculpted Doors for Vatican". Los Angeles Times. January 22, 1991. Retrieved 17 May 2014. Giacomo Manzu, 82, Italian sculptor who created the bronze "Doors of Death" in St. Peter's in the Vatican. Often at odds with the Catholic hierarchy because of his atheism and his mocking figures of cardinals, Manzu was a close friend of Pope John XXIII, who prodded him to sculpt the mammoth doors dedicated in 1964.
  4. Zacharias, Pat (5 September 1999). Monuments of Detroit Michigan History, Detroit News. Retrieved on 21 November 2007.

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На других языках

[de] Giacomo Manzù

Giacomo Manzù (eigentlich: Giacomo Manzoni; * 22. Dezember 1908 in Bergamo, Italien; † 17. Januar 1991 in Ardea bei Rom, Italien) war ein italienischer Bildhauer, Medailleur, Grafiker und Zeichner.
- [en] Giacomo Manzù

[es] Giacomo Manzù

Giacomo Manzù, seudónimo de Giacomo Manzoni (Bérgamo, 22 de diciembre de 1908 - Roma, 17 de enero,[1] 1991), fue un escultor de Italia del siglo XX.

[fr] Giacomo Manzù

Giacomo Manzù, pseudonyme de Giacomo Manzoni (Bergame, 22 décembre 1908 – Rome, 17 janvier 1991) est un sculpteur italien.

[it] Giacomo Manzù

Giacomo Manzù, nome d'arte di Giacomo Manzoni (Bergamo, 22 dicembre 1908 – Aprilia, 17 gennaio 1991), è stato uno scultore e pittore italiano.

[ru] Манцу, Джакомо

Джа́комо Манцу́ (Мандзу́[1]; итал. Giacomo Manzù; 1908—1991) — итальянский скульптор. Получил признание на Западе, однако благодаря коммунистической идеологии был также высоко ценим советской художественной критикой. Почётный член АХ СССР (1967), лауреат Международной Ленинской премии «За укрепление мира между народами» (1966).


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