Pietro Cascella

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Pietro Cascella
BornFebruary 2, 1921
Pescara, Italy
DiedMay 18, 2008
Pietrasanta
NationalityItalian
Known for
Spouses
Auschwitz II–Birkenau
, Poland
an assemblage of massive blocks surrounded by water
La Nave, 1987, Pescara, Abruzzo

Pietro Cascella (February 2, 1921 – May 18, 2008) was an Italian sculptor. His principal work consisted of large monumental sculptures, including the International Monument to the Victims of Fascism in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in Poland (1957–1967), and an underground mausoleum for Silvio Berlusconi at his villa in Arcore in the 1980s.[1][2]

Life

Cascella was born into a family of artists in Pescara on February 2, 1921. His father was Tommaso Cascella, a painter and ceramicist, and his mother was Susanna Federman.[2] His elder brother Andrea Cascella [it] was a sculptor.[3][4][5][6] Two of his uncles were also artists, the painter Michele Cascella and painter and ceramicist Gioacchino Cascella, as was his grandfather, the painter, ceramicist, and lithographer Basilio Cascella.[2] In 1945 he married Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza, an artist.[1][7][8] From 1977 he lived with his second wife, Cordelia von den Steinen [it], in the mediaeval Castello della Verrucola [it] in the comune of Fivizzano, above Carrara. He died in Pietrasanta in 2008.[9]

Work

In the late 1930s he moved to Rome and studied at the

Quadriennale di Roma painting exhibition of 1943, and in the twenty-fourth Biennale di Venezia in 1948. He also participated in the twenty-eighth Biennale in 1956.[2]

In the years after the

Stazione Termini, the principal railway station of Rome.[1][4] In 1950, the two completed a large mosaic for a Roman cinema, the Cinema America.[10] At about this time he also made small-scale reliefs in various materials, some of them drawing inspiration from the work of Roberto Matta, who was a friend.[1]

In 1950–1953 some ceramic work was included in the large American exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today.[11]: 31 

In 1962 his work was included in an exhibition of ceramics at the

Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels. In 1971 Cascella participated in the twenty-third Salon de la Jeune Sculpture [fr] in Paris.[12]

In April 2006 he received the

Italian Medal of Merit for Culture and Art.[12]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e Carlo Maria d'Este (2015). Pietro Cascella (1921–2008) (in Italian). Regione Abruzzo: Dipartimento Turismo, Cultura e Paesaggio. Archived 29 June 2021.
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  5. ^ Franco Miracco (1991). Cascella, Pietro (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana, appendix IV. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed June 2021.
  6. ^ Alexandra Andresen (1991). Cascella, Andrea (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana, appendix V. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed June 2021.
  7. ^ "Cinema America, Cesarini Sforza: "Quando io e Pietro Cascella realizzammo i mosaici della sala"". la Repubblica (in Italian). June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  8. ^ "La firma di Pietro Cascella e Anna Maria Cesarini Sforza dietro i mosaici del Cinema America - Roma - Repubblica.it". Roma - La Repubblica. June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  9. ^ Cascèlla, Pietro (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed June 2021.
  10. ^ ""America", i mosaici di Cascella allontanano l'ipotesi demolizione". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). June 18, 2014. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
  11. ^ Meyric Reynold Rogers (1950). [https://archive.org/details/italyatworkherr00rogegoog/page/n14/mode/1up Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today. Published in Italy for the Compagnia Nazionale Artigiana.
  12. ^ a b Walter Recinella (February 2, 2021) 2 Febbraio 1921: i primi 100 anni di Pietro Cascella (in Italian). Roma: Ente Nazionale Assistenza Sociale ai Cittadini. Archived 12 April 2021.
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