Riccardo Schweizer (1925-2004) - Senza titolo

Important painting from a collection.

Riccardo Schweizer (1925-2004)

Untitled
Mixed technique on paper in an important 20th-century frame.

Measurements: 72.5 cm x 62.5 cm
Painting: 46 x 34 cm

Signed, authentic opera with a certificate of authenticity
Coming from an important Milanese house.

Estimate: 800.00 / 1,000.00 euros

Biography
His technical-artistic studies began in Belluno and later in Venice at the Istituto d'Arte dei Carmini, directed by the Rovereto-born Giorgio Wenter Marini, where Carlo Scarpa also teaches.
He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, teaching you painting from 1954 to 1960 as an assistant to Bruno Saetti. During those years, he lived in the house of painter Vittorio Basaglia, who was at that time a stimulus and a benchmark for his work. He frequently attended the cultural avant-garde circles of the city and had the opportunity to meet, among others, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Gino Marinuzzi, Igor' Fëdorovič Stravinskij, Salvatore Quasimodo, Vittorio Klauser, Francesco Tentori, Virgilio Guidi, Diego Valeri, Rodolfo Pallucchini, Giuseppe Marchiori, Giuseppe Mazzariol, Elio Vittorini, Peggy Guggenheim, Guido Cadorin, Guido Perocco, Alberto Viani, Filippo de Pisis, Felice Carena, Gastone Breddo, Umberto Volante, and Carmelo Zotti, who in 1960 took his place at the Academy.
In 1950, he was in France, in Vallauris on the French Riviera, where he met and mingled with Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Massimo Campigli, and Le Corbusier.
In 1958, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Picasso Museum of Antibes dedicated an important solo exhibition to him, together with the artist friend Davide Orler.
Since 1960, he has settled in the French Riviera and has been working as a ceramist. His first major mural works date back to the following year, created for the Italian Editorial Institute in Milan and for two hotel establishments in San Martino di Castrozza.
In 1963, he married Dina Raveane. From their marriage, Monica and Barbara were born.
With the ceramic panel designed for the new baths of Levico (1965), the connection with Ceramica Pagnossin is inaugurated, an industry from Treviso with which he collaborated from 1970 to 1977, creating important objects of applied art.
In 1966, he dedicated an important work to the Vajont disaster in Ponte nelle Alpi.
In 1978, one of his most extensive interior decoration interventions took place at the Da Silvio restaurant in San Michele all’Adige, which later became a rare example of a protected restaurant among the cultural heritage of Trentino.
In the same years, he created frescoes, projects and decorative cycles, design objects, and interior decorations for public and private buildings in Italy and France, including the important 1982 decoration project for the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes.
In 1980, he developed a technique based on oxides and cement for a large external bas-relief covering three facades of the Municipality of Carros (Nice), a building designed by François Druet. In 1986, he created a 75-square-meter fresco for the new headquarters of the Trentino Institute of Culture in Trento, now the Bruno Kessler Foundation.
As a designer, Vince won the Murano First Prize in 1986. In 1989, he returned to Venice for a major solo exhibition at the Church of San Stae, during which the publishing house Electa dedicated a comprehensive monographic catalog to him, curated by Luigi Lambertini. In the 1990s, he conceived and created numerous works on commission for public and private clients. He was awarded the title of Knight of the Italian Republic by a motu proprio from Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 2001. He worked between Cannes and Casez, in Val di Non, where he died in September 2004.

Condition report: in good preservation with signs of aging.

The frame is included as a kind gift, an additional element to the artwork we include as a courtesy. Therefore, no claims are accepted regarding any transport damages (which are very rare) that may occur solely to the frame. Our artworks are shipped in complete safety with protective and professional packaging, and insured shipments.

With a certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law.