Edoardo Alfieri (1913 in

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, Italy – 1998 in

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, Italy) was an Italian

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Although he was born in Foggia, southern Italy, his family was of Piemontese origin and soon moved to

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, where he spent his childhood. He studied art at the school of Guido Galletti at Genoa and then, from 1932 to 1936, continued his studies at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in

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, under Francesco Messina. Already at the age of sixteen he won a first prize for his artwork at an exhibition in Genoa. In the 1930s, he was a member of the

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group ''Synthesis''. After

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, he held a post as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts of Genoa until 1969. Alfieri presented his work several times at the Biennale of Venice: in 1940, 1948, 1950, and in 1956 even in a dedicated hall. His work has been characterized as oscillating between avant-garde and traditional. Besides

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works, such as the Dagna grave at the cemetery of Staglieno, he also did traditional sculptures like the

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that was given as gift to the city of

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in the United States in 1955. Some of his works are abstract, for instance the Mele grave at Staglieno, or the

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''"Furor Mathematicus"''.

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Edoardo Alfieri
(in Italian). URL last accessed 2007-08-08.

(in Italian). URL last accessed 2007-08-08.

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