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Fortunato Depero

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Also known as F. Depero, Fortunata Depero

Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer (1892–1960)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1892-03-30
Active to
1960-11-29

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Listeners
439
Total plays
1,511

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Quotes

  • We Futurists, Balla and Depero, seek to realize this total fusion in order to reconstruct the universe by making it more joyful, in other words by an integral re-creation. 'We will give skeleton and flesh to the invisible, the impalpable, the imponderable and the imperceptible. We will find abstract equivalents for all the forms and elements of the universe, and then well will combine them according to the caprice of our inspiration, to shape plastic complexes which we will set in motion.
  • The Futurists were the first painters, poets, and architects who exalted modern work with their art—
  • Futurism attracted me and made me better, gave me a new strength, showed me new fields and possibilities.
  • The first and foremost critic of a work of art is the artist who created it. Give him every means to illustrate it and make it known. If an artist awaits celebrity or gratefulness for his work through other people, he will have the time to die a thousand times for sheer hunger.
  • If a painter once devoted himself to dynamism and now abandons it, denies it and even criticizes it, it is his own business. This does not mean, however that futurism has had his day. It is always worthy of interest and many artists still work in its ranks with unchanged passion. Dynamism is in life and in nature itself.

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Described at

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Sito Ufficiale Fortunato Depero L'Artista Sintesi autobiografica L'ARTISTA «Nacqui a Fondo (Val di Non) Trentino nel 1892. Altipiano di prati e selve oscure di larici ed abeti. Vallata di castelli e santuari. Padre nato spazzacamino e vissuto gendarme e

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Fondo
Place of death
Rovereto
Occupation
scenographer
Languages spoken
Italian
Field of work
literature
Image
Fortunato-Depero.jpg
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date of birth
1892-03-30
date of death
1960-11-29
Commons category
Fortunato Depero
described by source
UbuWeb
name in native language
Fortunato Depero
start of work period
1911-01-01
end of work period
1960-01-01
Sources (7)

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Fortunato Depero, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana