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Alberto Magnelli (1 July 1888 – 20 April 1971) was an Italian who was a significant figure in the post war movement.


Biography
Magnelli was born in on July 1, 1888. In 1907 he started painting and, despite lacking formal art education, Art in America: Alberto Magnelli at Leonard Hutton by 1909 he was established enough to be included in the . Marlborough: Alberto Magnelli Biography His initial works were in a style. Palazzo Magnani: Alberto Magnelli Magnelli joined the Florentine befriending artists including and . He also visited where he met Guillaume Apollinaire and the including , Fernand Léger, and Alexander Archipenko. By 1915 he had adopted an style incorporating cubist and elements. Marlborough: Alberto Magnelli Between Cubism and Futurism

Over the next few years Magnelli returned to figurative work and drifted away from the Italian , which was becoming more supportive of , which he opposed. By 1931 he had returned to abstraction in the form of featuring geometric shapes and overlapping planes. He moved to Paris, where he joined the Abstraction-Création group and became friends with Wassily Kandinsky, and . Following the invasion of France by the , Magnelli and his future wife, Susi Gerson, went to live in with several other artists including the Arps. Some of the group, including Gerson, were so they were forced to hide. Despite this, the group was able to produce a number of collaborative works. Art In America: An invented paradise

Following the Second World War, Magnelli returned to Paris which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He became a major figure in the post war concrete art movement and influenced artists such as , Nicolas de Staël as well as the concrete artists in South America such as Hélio Oiticica. He again exhibited at the Venice Biennale, this time with a whole room. Major galleries organised retrospectives of his work.

Magnelli died on 20 April 1971 at his home in , Paris.


Key exhibitions
  • Venice Biennale (1909)
  • Galleria Materassi, Florence (1921) (his first solo exhibition)
  • Pesaro Gallery, Milan (1929)
  • Galerie Pierre, Paris (1934) (his first major exhibition in Paris)
  • Nierendorf Gallery, New York (1937) (his first solo exhibition in the USA)
  • René Drouin Gallery (1947)
  • Venice Biennale (1950)
  • São Paulo Biennial (1951) (awarded second prize)
  • Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels (1954) (his first full retrospective exhibition)
  • Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1955)
  • Documenta II, Kassel (1955)
  • Kunsthaus, Zürich (1963) (major retrospective celebrating his 75th birthday)
  • Museum of Modern Art, Paris (1968)

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