Luigi Fabris - Knowledge

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of the ceramic artworks is a recent subject, and only few works have been published on the polymeric treatments suitable for these materials 1,2,3,. In Italy, one standing example of ceramic façade in outdoor environment is the Liberty palace in Venice Lido, named Hungaria Hotel, whose façade (700 m2) was totally decorated in 1914 with polychrome glazed ceramic tiles (Figure 1-a) by the famous Italian master of pottery Luigi Fabris (Bassano del Grappa, 1883-1952) (rif: A. Marata, U. Fattore, S. Magnani, R. Bertoncello, S. Tribbia, A. Rossani, T. Russo, E.Z. Boni, Se i muri potessero parlare, Casa Editrice I LIBRI DI DAMOLI s.r.l., Arbizzano di Negrar – Verona, 2008) ...

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bucolic groups, sacred subjects, animals, and ornamental vases. There were 530 models in 1942. He continued to test new heat resistant colors, besides common blue. Green, water green, sage green, yellow, yellow ochre, turquoise, periwinkle blue, lilac, rose, peach rose and new decoration techniques, such as the use of lace for ballerinas and small ladies, and small flowers and other relief decoration on the fabric of clothes, imitating the ancient Chinese ‘

139:, Bortolo Sacchi, Guido Cacciapuoti) Fabris believed in the artist's multiple, a limited series of small sculptures made by the artist with the collaboration of an artisanal laboratory. Thanks to his character he managed to surround himself with valid associates who kept the quality of production high: moulders, retouchers, flower designers, lace makers, painters, and gilders. He took part to the 1929 Leipzig Fair, where he obtained international fame. . 528: 516: 492: 166:, and at the Museo delle Maschere in Rome. The critics of his time defined him as "an artist who works and keeps quiet" (Parenti 1927) and as "a poet, because he has managed to transfuse the poetry and passion that animate him into the cold features of his creatures" (Della Chiesa, 1928). Gabriele d’Annunzio called him "excellent creator". 54:

In 1912, after a period of teaching at the Artisan School and at the Professional Institute of Drawing, both in Ponte di Legno (Brescia), he returned to Bassano to teach at the School of Drawing. He took over the factory of Raffaele Passarin and made his first ceramic models, and designed and carried

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Vittoria Alata, Frate Incappucciato (called Crisalide by the artist), Cavallo Greco, Libro Farfalla, L’ultima Suonata, Nudino con Maschera, Portacenere con Nudo, Nudo di Donna con Lampada, Busto di Eleonora Duse, Elefanti ed animali feroci. They were commissioned by Gabriele D'Annunzio for his villa

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Università degli Studi di Padova, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Padova, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per l ́Energetica e le Interfasi: A Survey of Polymeric Treatments applied on the Liberty Glazed Tiles of the Hungaria Façade: ... The protection

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As Nadir Stringa wrote: "The fantasy and creativity of Fabris are unlimited, and the sample case is continuously growing with romantic scenes, everyday life scenes, masks, caricatures, folk characters, musicians, dancers, historical personalities, characters of the Commedia dell’Arte, allegoric and

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As the expert in ceramics Nadir Stringa wrote in the introduction of the catalogue of the exhibition in Bassano del Grappa, Fabris "set out on a grandiose oeuvre in which he could express both his artistic gifts: sculpture (with large figures, plants, fruit and architectural elements in bas relief)

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in Milan. In 1942, English bombs struck the Fabris factory but the print house was saved. Luigi Fabris returned to Bassano del Grappa with his family. In 1943 the print house for porcelain was moved to Bassano into the new headquarters in Via Torino 10, and the workers also moved from Milan. Luigi

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He designed the red anchor logo and a monogram to protect his work and produced a large range of models, in just a few years; some of these were also large in size, which was unusual and risky for porcelain. In 1923 the Manifattura Italiana Porcellane Artistiche Fabris Milano participated to the

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In Milan he decided to try producing porcelain. The tests for the mixture of raw material and baking at high temperature were successful, thanks to the help of Raffaele Passarin's brother, who was an engineer in the laboratories of the Ercole Marelli company, founded in 1891 for the production of

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In 1920, he was commissioned by the Municipality of Bassano to make the statue La Musa Scrivente dedicated to the writer Giovanni Vaccari, deceased in 1919, currently in the Parolini Gardens in Bassano. He won the first prize at a sculpture contest in Genoa with the work La Samaritana. The bronze

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in Campo San Bartolommeo in Venice. Dal Zotto donated the model of the statue to his pupil's hometown as proof of his consideration for him. Fabris obtained the maximum note cum laude in "Nude Modeling" in the Second Special Course in Sculpture and received a cash prize as best student.

305:, A.V. (October–November 1927). The pieces were: Vittoria Alata, Frate Incappucciato (called Crisalide by the artist), Cavallo Greco, Libro Farfalla, L’ultima Suonata, Nudino con Maschera, Portacenere con Nudo, Nudo di Donna con Lampada, Busto di Eleonora Duse, Elefanti ed animali feroci 82:

statue is now in a building in Genoa, while the plaster statue is kept in his studio. In 1922, he sculpted a monument in high relief commissioned by the Venetian provinces for the Opera Bonomelli in Bergamo. He made the statue of the goddess Hygieia for the

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In 1916, after the damage caused by World War I in Bassano del Grappa (aerial bombing struck the bridge on the Brenta river near his kiln in Via Gamba), he decided to move to Milan in Via Bandello 15. In 1918, an architect friend of his, probably

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In the 1920s, he was elected head of the Ceramics Community of Lombardy and became a member of the Fascist Experimental Institute for Ceramics. Fabris porcelain was exported all over the world. He made a porcelain portrait of Princess

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Fabris designed and produced 24 Biscuit porcelain sculptures and about a hundred polychrome porcelain sculptures. The detailed list is included in the cited catalogue of the exhibition. The most important are:

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Luigi Fabris 1883/1952. Plasmare l’Armonia, Sculture, Dipinti, Porcellane, with texts by Mario Guderzo and Nadir Stringa, Catalogue of the exhibition held in Bassano del Grappa, Comune di Bassano del Grappa,

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Fabris never stopped creating new models, helped by his sons Antonio (who was responsible for management), Gianantonio (responsible for sculpture) and his daughter-in-law Vittoria (responsible for painting).

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After he obtained the desired results in ovens at 1300 degrees, Luigi Fabris established a factory of art porcelain in Corso Indipendenza 7 in Milan, with many ovens for high temperature baking.

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After his death on 19 May 1953, Fabris porcelain was requested more and more. His work is on display at the National Museum of Cuba, at the Ceramics Museum in Bassano del Grappa, at the

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Monument to the Fallen Soldier of the Air Force Emilio Ferruccio Lucchetti, 1922, Bronze, cm 180 x 85 x 40, cappella Lucchetti, cemetery of Camisano (Cremona). Kept in Milan until 2003,

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After the end of World War I, when he was already an accomplished sculptor, he made the statue for the Monument to the Fallen Soldier of the Air Force Ferruccio Lucchetti at the

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on horseback for an equestrian monument that was to be placed in Piazza Venezia in Rome, but the monument was censured because it ‘trampled’ on the ruins of Rome.

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in 1923. Fabris's production was successful and the laboratory was visited by important personalities of culture, theatre, cinema and politics.

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