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Alberto Burri Biography
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1915 |
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Born March 12 in Città di Castello, Italy
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1940 |
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Earned his medical degree in 1940 from the University of Perugia and served as a physician during World War II
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1944 |
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Following his unit’s capture in northern Africa, he was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Hereford, Texas where he started to paint on the burlap that was at hand
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1946 |
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Released from camp and moved to Rome, where his first solo show was held at the Galleria La Margherita the following year
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1949 - 1950 |
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Experimented with various unorthodox materials, fabricating tactile collages with pumice, tar, and burlap
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1953 |
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Gained attention in the United States: his work was included in the group exhibition Younger European Painters at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and was shown as well at the Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, and the Stable Gallery, New York
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1959 |
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Won the Premio dell’Ariete in Milan and the UNESCO Prize at the São Paulo Bienal
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1977 |
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Retrospective of work inaugurated at the University of California’s Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
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1994 |
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Presented Italian Order of Merit
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1995 |
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Died February 15 in Nice, France
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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1999
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Omaggio a Alberto Burri-Grafica e Scultura, Comune di Colonnella, Teramo, Italy
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1996 - 1997
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Palazzo del Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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1995
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Alberto Burri mostra omaggio, Galleria II Segno, Rome, Italy
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1990
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Perielio: Burri-Saffo, Italian Cultural Institute, Athens, Greece
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1988
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Alberto Burri graphics, M. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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1985
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Burri, Combustioni, Cretti, Cellotex 1974-1984, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
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1980
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Alberto Burri, Il Viaggio, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
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1979
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Alberto Burri 1978-1979, J. Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
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1977 - 1978
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(retrospective) University of California’s Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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1977
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Galleria 2RC, Milan-Rome, Italy
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1972
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(Retrospective) Musée National d’ Art Moderne, Paris
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1967
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Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
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1963 - 1964
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(Retrospective), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
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1962
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Marlborough Galleria, Rome
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1960
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Hanover Gallery, London, England
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1959
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Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
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1958
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Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
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1957
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Galleria dell’Obelisco, Rome, Italy
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1955
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The Stable Gallery, New York
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1952
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Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
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1948
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Galleria dell’Angelo, Città di Castello, Italy
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1947
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Galleria La Margherita, Rome, Italy
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