FROM THE GROTESQUE TO THE BEAUTIFUL
For a while now I have been in my Secession period (see http://discovmaggsie.blogspot.com/2015/06/dolce-vita-from-liberty-to-italian.html ). Vir Temporis Acti , ALSO HOMME DU PASSE _ 1924 One of my art magazines had praised the sculptor Aldofo Wildt and there I found he too had been part of this period for a very short while. The sculpture that I saw on posters around Paris is not exactly enticing and yet there was something very modern about it I decided to go along.
Depending which site you look up he is either Italian or Swiss. For sure he was born in 1863 into a family of limited means. I’m surprised that his birthplace is not so clear. He left school very early to work as an apprentice; first of all a hairdresser and then as a goldsmith. The two professions are hardly related. At 11 he became an apprentice in the workshop of Giuseppe Grandi, so by now was living in Italy. His ability to work with marble made him quite famous by the time he was 18.He died in 1931. ...