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Piero Dorazio (Rom 1927 - Perugia 2005) - Sell & Buy

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Italian painter, stage designer, ceramist and art writer, one of the leading abstract painters of his country. D. was artistically active at an early age, but he broke off a study of architecture in 1951. Even before he was able to study in Paris in 1948 with a scholarship from the French government, he was well connected in the art scene in Italy and France, co-founder of artists' groups and co-author of artistic programs. In 1953/54 he was also in Harvard and New York and made many contacts there as well, becoming a professor in Baltimore in 1963. Later he was also active in Düsseldorf and Berlin. His works were repeatedly exhibited at the Documenta. Mus.: New York (MoMA, Guggenheim), London (Tate, V&A), Berlin (Neue Nat.-Gal.), Frankfurt (Städel), Ludwigshafen (Wilhelm-Hack-Museum), Mailand, Florenz, Wien, Washington a. others. Lit.: AKL, Vollmer a. others.

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