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 ...
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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)
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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 ...
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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
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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