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Aldo Andreani (August 1, 1887 in Mantua – October 18, 1971 in Milano) was an Italian architect and sculptor.

Biography

Andreani trained as an architect at the San Luca Academy in

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and then graduated from the

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Polytechnic under the guidance of

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. He moved to Milan at the end of

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and combined the study of sculpture with a flourishing architectural career initiated in

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in 1909 and based on that city’s Renaissance models. He began attending the first special course in sculpture at the

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, in Milan, in 1927, and developed a new interest in the solidity of volumes and simplification of forms under the guidance of his teacher Adolph Wildt. He was active as a sculptor above all in the 1930s with a large range of portraits and religious works as well as allegories and celebrations of the Fascist regime serving as architectural decoration. Andreani held his first solo show at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan from December 1931 to January 1932 and took part in the Venice Biennial (Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della città di Venezia) in 1934 and the Paris International Exposition in 1937, where he was awarded a silver medal for a series of decorative high-relief works for the vestibule of the Italian Pavilion. As an architect, he received major commissions for residential buildings in Mantua and in Milan, where he was also involved in the renovation of Piazza San Babila.

Bibliography

* Chiara Baglione, ''Cronaca di un progetto. Palazzo Fidia a Milano'', in "Casabella", 706-707, dicembre 2002-gennaio 2003, pp. 75–86. * Elena Lissoni
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