Biography

The son of a blacksmith, but impoverished baronial family. Initial experiments on the sculptural technique acquired in Palermo at the age of seven years in the Laboratory of Benedetto Delisi and twelve years he began working in the studio of Domenico Costantino.

After a short stay in Naples in 1878, he moved to Florence where he was confronted with the realism and that of the Scapigliatura Macchiaioli here and fell in love Quattrocentisti, Donatello and Michelangelo, in particular.

In 1880 it was still in Palermo where, for the arch of triumph apprestato for the visit of King Umberto I, formed a large plaster Minerva seated, with the money earned went to Paris, and became friends with the sculptor Giovanni Antonio Lanzirotti; The following year he exhibited at the Salon of the Rejected (established by Napoleon III in 1863 to exhibit the works carried out under the new current of Impressionism) an old man's head.

He was called to London by the painter Edwin Long, exposed to Cecilia Academy, where he obtained a great success with the public. In Paris he made a series of sculptures or mythological subjects idyllic destination and decorative. Between 1887 and 1889 formed two busts of women, Pia dei Tolomei and Cecilia, who consecrated sculptor forms graceful, classical in attitude, at the same time able to reveal the psychological expression.

In 1895, he returned to Italy from Paris after a stay of fifteen years, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale Before The dispossessed, the outcast (marble) and the Head of Ophelia, already exhibited in Paris in 1893 and 1894 in Vienna.

The following year he attended the International Exhibition in Florence, still with Ophelia and participated at the Turin with the marble fountain, in 1897, the Third Triennial Exhibition of Brera, showed a plaster monument for Ofelia and revisited. Two years later, the Biennale di Venezia III exhibited two marbles, Daughter of Niobe and Portrait; in 1901 was a member of the jury of the Venice Biennale, where he represented with Portrait, Head of old, The ciccaiuolo, by bustier girl, The Aurora broken.

In 1903, the same survey sent bronzes Cain, Sower, Pompey and nameplate Molmenti plaster dedicated to actress Emma Gramatica.

For many years he taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. In 1904 he joined Art Association Tuscany. Since 1908 he is a member of the Municipal Commission of Fine Arts in Florence.

In 1909 he exhibited at the Society Leonardo da Vinci in Florence. In 1910, he participated in the Venice Biennale with the marble smile child, Mother and Child with Naked Women and the bronze head. In 1911 he executed the grace of God, By the will of the nation.

The following year, with the dead Christ was again at the Venice Biennale, where it will appear, for the last time in 1922 with the bronze Jeremiah Bishop Bonomelli. In March 1920 he held a solo exhibition at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan two years later, he participated in the Spring and Fiorentina in 1925 participated in the II Biennial of Monza. A year before his death he was named Academic of Italy.

Among all the art villages visited, that of Florence was the favorite sculptor, where he settled and where he made most of his works and where he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and became the teacher of many sculptors including Torello remember Santini, Bruno Catarzi, Mario Moschi, Marino Marini, Giuseppe De Angelis.
Works

    The abandoned, Revoltella Museum, Trieste
    Cain and Plaster of Faunetta, Gallery of Modern Art in Palermo
    At the Source, Gallery of Modern Art in Rome

Exhibitions

    Venice Biennale, 1895 - 1899 - 1901 - 1910 - 1912 - 1920
    III Exposition Triennale di Brera, 1897
    International Exhibition of Florence, 1895
    Galleria Pesaro in Milan, 1920

Bibliography

    Marco Moretti, Bruno Catarzi Sculptor 1903-1996, Masso delle Fate Editions, Signa, 2005. ISBN 88-6039-006-0
    Giampiero Fossi, Over the twentieth century - Contemporary Art in Signe, Masso delle Fate Editions, Signa, 2003. ISBN 88-87305-42-0
    Cristina Sirigatti, Mario Moschi - The eye, memory, hand, sincerity, Masso delle Fate Editions, Signa, 2005. ISBN 88-87309-87-0
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