Giovanni Bianconi (22 March 1891,

Minusio Minusio is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. History In the Ceresole section, a significant Iron Age necropolis (c. 6th-5th century BC) was discovered. It held about 20 graves and rich grave goods ...

, Switzerland – 7 March 1981, Minusio) was a Swiss-Italian poet, artist and

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

. The son of Alessandro and Margherita Rusconi, he was the elder brother of the writer

Piero Bianconi Piero Bianconi (1 June 1899 in Minusio – 5 June 1984 in Minusio) was a Swiss-Italian writer and academic. He was the son of Alessandro and Margherita Rusconi and the brother of the poet Giovanni Bianconi. He graduated in Italian literature from ...

. He trained at

San Gallo , neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach , twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic) , website = ...

and the

State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded on 25 June 1761, and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical sig ...

Works

Lugano Cantonal Museum of Art

* ''Piano di Magadino'', 1911–1951, woodcut on tissue paper * ''Terra ticinese'', 1920, woodcut on card * ''Barche a riva'', 1920–1980, woodcut on card * ''Casupole a Minusio'', 1920–1980, woodcut on card * ''Lago Maggiore'', 1920–1980, woodcut on card * ''Nevicata'', 1920–1980, woodcut on card * ''Portrait of Giuseppe Zoppi aged 30'', 1926, woodcut on card * ''Discussione (Neutralità)'', 1930–1940, woodcut on card * ''Vecchia Locarno'', 1955, woodcut on card * ''Cerimonia funebre'', undated, oil on panel * ''Solduno'', 1946, woodcut on card

Other

* ''Val Verzasca'', 1966 * ''Ticino rurale'', 1971 * ''Legni e versi'', 1978 * ''Costruzioni contadine ticinesi'', 1982

Bibliography

*Giovanni Orelli, ''Svizzera italiana'', Editrice La Scuola, Brescia 1986, 148-150.

External links

Woodcut self-portrait
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bianconi, Giovanni Swiss people of Italian descent 20th-century Swiss painters 20th-century Swiss male artists Swiss male painters 20th-century Swiss poets 20th-century Swiss male writers Swiss ethnographers People from Minusio 1981 deaths 1891 births