Medardo Rosso.KUNSTMUSEUM WINTERTHUR True to his surname, Medardo Rosso Medardo Rosso (born 21 June 1858, Turin, Italy - died 31 March 1928, Milan) was an Italian sculptor. He is thought to have developed the Post Impressionism style in sculpture along with Auguste Rodin. was a fiery spirit who escaped ottocento realism to become one of the progenitors
The Progenitors were a race of fictional beings in the Star Trek Universe created by Gene Roddenberry. of modern sculpture. Curated by Dieter Schwarz Dieter Schwarz (born 24 September 1939 in Heilbronn) is a German entrepreneur and owner of the Schwarz-Gruppe. He is the chairman and CEO of supermarket chain Lidl, which he inherited from his father, Josef Schwarz, in 1977. He is currently estimated to be worth 10.25 billion euros. of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, this show of some forty sculptures and twenty-five drawings surveys the artist's brief career, from the detailed genre subjects of the early 1880s to the figures melting into environments from the following decade. Rosso urged viewers to "forget the material," but he obviously loved it himself, embracing plaster and wax rather than treating them as mere stages in bronze casting. (A concurrent show organized by the Harvard University Art Museums The Harvard University Art Museums are the Fogg Art Museum, which specializes in Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, which specializes in art of Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. focusing on Rosso's casting process offers a nice complement to this retrospective.) Sept. 6-Nov. 23; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Dec. 14-Feb. 20.--EB |
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