Riccardo Schweizer
Riccardo Schweizer , born Riccardo Antonio Svaizer ( Mezzano , 31 August 1925 - Casez , 20 September 2004 ), he was a painter , sculptor , photographer , designer and architect Italian .
Biography
His technical and artistic studies begin to Belluno and then in Venice at the Art Institute of Carmini, directed by Roveretan Wenter Giorgio Marini and where he also teaches Carlo Scarpa .
He graduated at ' Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice , by teaching painting from 1954 to 1960 as an assistant Bruno Saetti . He lives in those years in the house of the painter Vittorio Basaglia , who will be at the time the stimulus and the comparison to his work. He attended with great diligence the cultural avant-garde circles of the city, and he met among others Luigi Nono , Bruno Maderna , Gino Marinuzzi , Igor Stravinsky , Salvatore Quasimodo , Victor Klauser, Francesco Tentori, Virgilio Guidi , Diego Valeri , Rodolfo Pallucchini Giuseppe Marchiori , Giuseppe Mazzariol, Elio Vittorini , Peggy Guggenheim , Cadorin Guido , Guido Perocco, Alberto Viani , Filippo de Pisis , Felice Carena , Gastone Breddo , Umberto Volante and Carmelo Zotti, who will take his place at the Academy in 1960.
In 1950 in France , in Vallauris on the French Riviera , where he met and associated with Pablo Picasso , Marc Chagall , Fernand Léger , Jean Cocteau , Massimo Campigli and Le Corbusier .
In 1958, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the foundation, the Picasso Museum in Antibes devotes a major solo exhibition with his friend artist David Orler .
Since 1960 he moved to the French Riviera and engages in the activity of ceramist. Date back to the following year the first large murals for the Italian Editorial Institute of Milan and two hotels in San Martino di Castrozza .
In 1963 he married Dina Raveane. Monica and Barbara will be born from the marriage.
With ceramic panel designed for new spas Levico (1965) opens the link with Ceramic Pagnossin, industry Treviso with whom he collaborated from 1970 to 1977, creating important objects of applied art.
In 1966 he dedicated to the Vajont disaster important work in Ponte nelle Alpi .
Dates back to 1978, one of its larger interior decorating work at Da Silvio restaurant in San Michele , who later became a rare example of the restaurant between Trentino protected cultural heritage.
In the same years realizes frescoes, projects and decorative cycles, design objects and interior decoration for public and private buildings, in Italy and France, including the important 1982 decoration project for the Palace of Festivals and Congresses Cannes .
1980: is developing a technique based on oxides and cement for a great outdoor relief that covers three sides of the Hall of Carros (Nice), a building designed by François Druet. In 1986 he made a fresco of 75 square meters for the new headquarters of the Institute of Culture in Trentino Trento , now Fondazione Bruno Kessler .
As a designer he won, in 1986, the First Prize Murano. In 1989 he returned to Venice for a large solo exhibition at the Church of San Stae , at which the publishing house Electa dedicates a rich monographic catalog edited by Luigi Lambertini. In the nineties, he conceives and realizes many works of public and private commission. Awarded its own motion by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi the title of Knight of the Italian Republic in 2001, he works between Cannes and Casez in Val di Non , where he died in September 2004.
