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Alberto Burri

(Italian, 1915–1995)

untitled (calvesi 45) by alberto burri

Alberto Burri

Untitled (Calvesi 45), 1973–1976

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untitled (calvesi 47) by alberto burri

Alberto Burri

Untitled (Calvesi 47), 1973–1976

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untitled (calvesi 46) by alberto burri

Alberto Burri

Untitled (Calvesi 46), 1973–1976

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Biography

Timeline

1915
Born on March 12 in Città di Castello, Italy
1940
Earned his medical degree in 1940 from the University of Perugia and served as a physician during World War II
1944
Following his unit’s capture in northern Africa, he was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Hereford, Texas where he started to paint on the burlap that was at hand
1946
Released from camp and moved to Rome, where his first solo show was held at the Galleria La Margherita the following year
1949 - 1950
Experimented with various unorthodox materials, fabricating tactile collages with pumice, tar, and burlap
1953
Gained attention in the United States: his work was included in the group exhibition Younger European Painters at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and was shown as well at the Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, and the Stable Gallery, New York
1959
Won the Premio dell’Ariete in Milan and the UNESCO Prize at the São Paulo Bienal
1977
Retrospective of work inaugurated at the University of California’s Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
1994
Presented Italian Order of Merit
1995
Died on February 15 in Nice, France

Exhibitions

1999
Omaggio a Alberto Burri-Grafica e Scultura, Comune di Colonnella, Teramo, Italy
1996 - 1997
Palazzo del Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1995
Alberto Burri mostra omaggio, Galleria II Segno, Rome, Italy
1990
Perielio: Burri-Saffo, Italian Cultural Institute, Athens, Greece
1988
Alberto Burri graphics, M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Burri, Combustioni, Cretti, Cellotex 1974-1984, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
1980
Alberto Burri, Il Viaggio, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
1979
Alberto Burri 1978-1979, J. Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1977 - 1978
(retrospective) University of California’s Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1977
Galleria 2RC, Milan-Rome, Italy
English (US)

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