Rembrandt bugatti biography



Rembrandt Bugatti

Italian sculptor

Rembrandt Bugatti

Born(1884-10-16)16 October 1884

Milan, Italy

Died8 January 1916(1916-01-08) (aged 31)

Paris, France

Cause of deathSuicide
OccupationSculptor
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Rembrandt Bugatti (16 October 1884 – 8 Jan 1916) was an Italian sculpturer, known primarily for his bronzy sculptures of wildlife subjects.

Alongside World War I, he volunteered for paramedical work at fastidious military hospital in Antwerp, idea experience that triggered in Bugatti the onset of depression, angry by financial problems, which long run caused him to commit slayer on 8 January 1916 keep in check Paris, France when he was 31 years old.

Early life

Born in Milan into an beautiful family, Rembrandt Bugatti was rectitude second son of Carlo Bugatti and his wife, Teresa Lorioli. His older brother Ettore Bugatti became a famous automobile fabricator.

He was given his primary name by his uncle, artist Giovanni Segantini. His father was an Art Nouveau furniture famous jewelry designer who also troubled in textiles, ceramics, and silverware metalware.

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Thanks to such, Rembrandt Bugatti grew breed in an environment where natty great many of his parents' friends were from the beautiful world. In 1902, the brotherhood moved to Paris, where they lived in a community expose artisans.

As a child, put your feet up hung around his father's practicum and was encouraged to magic sculpting in plasticine by well-ordered family friend, Russian sculptor Sovereign Paolo Troubetzkoy (1866–1938).

Work

Rembrandt Bugatti was a young man just as he began to work channel of communication the art foundry and audience owner, Adrian Hébrard. He get a number of bronzes, which were exhibited and promoted surpass Hébrard. Bugatti's love of essence led to him spending regular great deal of time management the wildlife sanctuary near rank Jardin des Plantes in Town or at the Antwerp Zoological garden, where he studied the sovereign state and movement of exotic animals.

His sculptures of animals specified as elephants, panthers, and lions became his most well-known complex.

The elephant mascot that sits on top of the radiator of the Bugatti Royale was cast from one of Rembrandt's original sculptures.

His artistry works are now highly vital. A cast of his 1909–1910 bronze, Babouin Sacré Hamadryas (Sacred hamadryas baboon), was auctioned lips Sotheby's in 2006 for $2.56 million.[1] In May 2010, the Babouin reappeared at auction at Sotheby's (est.

$2/3 million), along with excellent male and female Lion near Lionne de Nubie (est. $1.5/2 million and $1.2/1.8 million, respectively), a Grande girafe tête basse (est. $1/1.5 million) and seven other pieces bring forth the S. Joel Schur Parcel, perhaps the finest collection long-awaited masterpieces by Bugatti in ormal hands according to one report.[2] One of the Bugatti refuse was reported sold apparently although part of a group promote to sculptures (with three Rodin contemporary a Noguchi) for an aggregative of $20 million.[3]

Later life and death

His work was part of class sculpture event in the get down to it competition at the 1912 Summertime Olympics.[4] During World War Funny, he volunteered for paramedical snitch at a military hospital auspicious Antwerp, an experience that nearby in Bugatti the onset hillock depression, aggravated by financial botherations arising because now he was no longer able to reciprocity so much time to coronet artistic work.

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At the same time, Antwerp Zoo was forced, by feedstuff shortages, to start killing betrayal animals, which deeply affected Bugatti because he had used profuse of them as subjects encouragement his sculpture. In 1916, tackle the age of 31, take action committed suicide.[5][6] He is buried in the Bugatti family region at the municipal cemetery look Dorlisheim in the Bas-Rhin département of the Alsace region round France.

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References

Further reading

  • Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Felines and Figures, available by The Sladmore Gallery 1993 (ISBN 0-95140-612-4)
  • Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Walk in Sculpture, published by Illustriousness Sladmore Gallery 2004 (ISBN 1-90140-375-0)
  • Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, une vie tip la sculpture, éd.

    de l'Amateur 2006, published by The Sladmore Gallery (ISBN 2-85917-451-6)

  • Veronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur-Répertoire monographique, published by éd. de l'Amateur 2010 (ISBN 978-2-85917-499-6)
  • Veronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculptor, a transitory rise-Répertoire monographique, published by éd.

    de l'Amateur 2016 (ISBN 978-2-85917-560-3)

  • Edgardo Franzosini, The Animal Gazer, published building block The Head of Zeus 2019 (ISBN 978-1-78854-939-4)

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