Casa del Fascio (Bolzano)
The former
The convex-shaped building relates to the opposite Justice Palace, built between 1939 and 1956 to a concave design by Paolo Rossi de Paoli and Michele Busiri Vici. The former Casa del Fascio bears a monumental
Despite being state-owned and continuous protests by German-speaking South Tyroleans, the relief remained untouched for decades. In 2011, the Italian
An infopoint has been installed on the square itself, with explanatory texts in four languages, explaining the history of the building, Piffrader's work, the more general urban context and the quotation by Hannah Arendt.
Bibliography
- Frei, Mathias (2005), Hans Piffrader 1888–1950. Entwürfe zum Relief am Gebäude der Finanzämter in Bozen = Bozzetti per il rilievo del Palazzo degli Uffici finanziari di Bolzano, Bozen, Südtiroler Künstlerbund (in German).
- Strobl, Wolfgang (2015), "Mussolini im Gewande Neros. Subversives und Zensur in der Kunst einer Grenzregion des faschistischen Italien (Zu Hans Piffraders Fries für die Casa del Fascio in Bozen)." Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione, 24, nr. 2, pp. 170–84 (in German).
- Obermair, Hannes (2017), "Monuments and the City—an almost inextricable entanglement", in Matthias Fink; et al. (eds.), Multiple Identitäten in einer "glokalen Welt"—Identità multiple in un "mondo glocale"—Multiple identities in a "glocal world", Bozen-Bolzano: ISBN 978-88-98857-35-7
- Obermair, Hannes (2018). "Da Hans a Hannah—il "duce" di Bolzano e la sfida di Arendt". Il Cristallo. Rassegna di varia umanità (in Italian). 60 (1): 27–32. ISSN 0011-1449.
- Kraus, Carl; Obermair, Hannes (2019). Mythen der Diktaturen. Kunst in Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus – Miti delle dittature. Arte nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo (in German and Italian). Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Kultur- und Landesgeschichte Schloss Tirol. pp. 201–7. ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3.
- Di Michele, Andrea (2020), "Storicizzare i monumenti fascisti. Il caso di Bolzano." Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione, 29, nr. 2, pp. 149–67 (in Italian); also in English transl. (2022), "Fascist Monuments on the Border. The Case of Bolzano/Bozen, South Tyrol", in Andrea Di Michele, Filippo Focardi (eds.), Rethinking Fascism. The Italian and German Dictatorships, Berlin/Boston, de Gruyter, pp. 247–74. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-013.
- Cento Bull, Anna; Clarke, David (2020), "Agonistic interventions into public commemorative art: An innovative form of counter-memorial practice?" Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 27, Wiley 2020, pp. 1–15.
- Belmonte, Carmen (2021), "Art contemporain et préservation critique des monuments du fascisme en Italie. Un «iconoclash» à Bolzano." In Laura Iamurri, Luca Acquarelli, Francesco Zucconi (eds.), Le fascisme italien au prisme des arts contemporains. Réinterprétations, remontages, déconstructions. Rennes: PUR Editions, pp. 203–17.
- Bevan, Robert (2022). Monumental Lies. Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past. London-New York: Verso. pp. 22–27, 283–84. ISBN 978-1-83976-187-4.
See also
References
- ^ SVP: “Duce-Relief wird entfernt"
- ^ (in German) Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Ambivalente Geschichtsorte als reflexive Ressource, December 12, 2017
- ^ La piazza del Tribunale di Bolzano e il fregio di Hans Piffrader sull'edificio degli Uffici finanziari. Relazione, June 9, 2014
External links
- Official Website
- (in Italian) Susanna Turco, Così a Bolzano hanno "smantellato" il bassorilievo gigante di Benito Mussolini. L'Espresso, November 6, 2017.
- (in Italian) F. Sa., Così capovolgo il monumento del duce. Il Fatto Quotidiano, June 21, 2018.
- Invernizzi-Accetti, Carlo (2017), A small Italian town can teach the world how to defuse controversial monuments. The Guardian, December 6, 2017.
- Obermair, Hannes (2022). "The Bas-Relief in Bolzano-Bozen". Contested Histories Onsite. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
- Poll, Zoey (2020). "The Counter-Monument. Disempowering a memorial to Fascism". ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved 21 July 2020.