Andrea Bresciani
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Andrea Bresciani (29 January 1923 – 7 February 2006) was an Italian-born
Life and career
Bresciani was born Dušan Brešan to a Slovene family in Tolmino (at the time part of the Province of Gorizia in Italy but now a city in Slovenia). At the outbreak of World War II, his mother took Dušan and his two sisters to live near Milan. The family subsequently took the Italian surname "Bresciani", and he changed his first name to "Andrea". Entirely self-taught, Bresciani began his career as a commercial artist designing furniture for an architect in Milan while commuting from Pavia. After the war, he found a discarded Italian comic book on the train and decided to try earning extra money as a comics artist. After working for three months on a portfolio, he obtained work for the Milan-based comic book publisher Edizioni Alpe and began a full-time career as a comics artist. [2][3][4] He then worked with Andrea Lavezzolo, illustrating Lavezzolo's comic series Tony Falco which ran from 1948 to 1949 and Geky Dor which ran from 1949 to 1950.[5][6]
In late 1950 Bresciani emigrated to Australia, eventually settling in Sydney in 1951 where he worked for
In the early 1970s Bresciani, who had recently remarried, returned to Europe, working as a cartoonist and illustrator in Spain and Germany and extending his career to film. He worked as an animator, layout artist, and art director for Hanna-Barbera in Europe and later in Sydney when he returned to Australia. He also lived for a period in the Philippines in the early 1980s working at the Marvel Productions studio in Manila. Amongst his many film and television credits during this period were The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972), Defenders of the Earth (1986), and Alice Through the Looking Glass (1987). In his later years Bresciani lived in the suburbs of Melbourne near his sisters and the children from his first marriage and devoted himself to sculpting horses. He died in his sleep at his home in Malvern at the age of 83.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ The Sydney Morning Herald (4 April 1966). "Strip hits the sales frontier", p. 6. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ a b University of Sydney Library. "Frontiers of Science: Andrea Bresciani (Illustrator)". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ a b c AustLit. "Bresciani, Andrea". Retrieved 13 September 2016 (subscription required for full access).
- ^ a b c Trovato, Giuseppe (March 1998). "Andrea Bresciani: un disegnatore tra i canguri". Fumetto, No. 25. (excerpts in English translation, reprinted with permission on Pulp Faction). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ Bono, Gianni and Farina, Antonio (2015). "Albi della Mezzaluna: Tony Falco". Guida al Fumetto Italiano. Retrieved 13 September 2016 (in Italian).
- ^ Bono, Gianni (2015). "Albi della Mezzaluna: Geky Dor". Guida al Fumetto Italiano. Retrieved 13 September 2016 (in Italian).
Further reading
- Trovato, Giuseppe (21 April 2006). "Addio, Andrea Bresciani". Il Globo
External links
- Andrea Bresciani at IMDb
- Carantha History of Slovenia: Slovenian Arts and Crafts (contains an image of one of Bresciani's horse sculptures)