The Friends of Antonio Calderara was founded in 2003 in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich during the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Antonio Calderara. It is an international community of friends, admirers, artists, museum directors, curators, art historians, collectors and gallerists. The organization is currently still an informal one, and the idea is to establish an International Antonio Calderara Association.
The aim of the Friends of Antonio Calderara is to research, care for and especially to procure the life's work of Antonio Calderara. We think that this is an extremely valuable and important gift to society, both present and future. His work is still far too under-represented in the art world, in museums or in exhibitions; not to mention being inaccessible and unknown to the broader public.
Hence we are happy to have brought more attention to his work through the large exhibitions held in 2003 and 2004 in museums in Munich, Bottrop and Bologna in celebration of Calderara’s 100th birthday, enriched by many loaned works from the Friends of Antonio Calderara. Now, in 2010, we would like to take it a step further.
On this website we show works from the collections of the Friends of Antonio Calderara, mostly from small and larger private collections as well as from museums. Here we would like to collect, research, view – we would especially like, at least through this medium, to display some of his works, and to give a (developing) overview of his entire oeuvre and its fascinating development and evolvement.
This current and ever-increasing collection will combine with the Catalogue raisonné which has been initiated now by the Fondazione Calderara in Milan. The Friends of Antonio Calderara have been aiming towards this goal for a long time and welcome this project warmly and trust in a continuing cooperation with the Fondazione.
We are grateful for and keen to receive any new information concerning Antonio Calderara as well as contributions or contacts.
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1903 geboren, am 28. Oktober, in Abbiategrasso bei Mailand
(er selbst gab immer an: in Abbiategrasso, Europa)
1914 Umzug der Familie nach Mailand; zweiter Wohnsitz Vacciago
1915 erstes Bild (eigene Angabe)
1923 erste Einzelausstellung (eigene Angabe)
1923-25 Ingenieurstudium in Mailand
1925 Aufgabe des Ingenieurstudiums; auschließliche Hinwendung zur Malerei
1933 Geburt der Tochter Gabriella
1934 Heirat mit Carmela, Umzug nach Vacciago
1944 Tod der Tochter
1945 Rückkehr nach Mailand
1950 Erster Herzinfarkt
1953 Nach Tod des Bruders Übernahme des
großelterlichen Hauses "Casa Travaglini" in Vacciago,
das zu seinem Atelier-, Wohn-, Galerie- und Sammlungsgebäude
und dann zur "Fondazione Calderara" wird
1954 Ist von einer Ausstellung
mit Werken Piet Mondrian sehr beeindruckt
1959 Erstes ungegenständliches Bild
1960 Bekanntschaft mit Almir Mavignier,
der ihn zum "Studio F" in Ulm bringt
1965 Kontakt mit Studio UND, München
1960 - 78 weltweit Ausstellungen abstrakter Bilder
in Museen und Galerien
1977 Stiftung der Fondazione Calderara
1978 am 27. Juni in Vacciago gestorben
Rupert Walser: Antonio Calderara und das studio UND (1993)
Jean Christophe Amman - Ein Schluessel zur Betrachtung Calderaras
Albert Schulze Vellinghausen (1965) - Das Einfachste ist wichtig genug
Antonio Calderara – Una luce senza ombre
Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung im MASI, Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano 2016/2017
Texte von Elio Schenini, Hans Rudolf Reust, Paola Bacuzzi, Eraldo Misserini
324 S., 95 Farbabb., 21 x 20,5 cm, Hardcover mit Leinenrücken
€ 49,-
Antonio Calderara
Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung im Kunstmuseum Winterthur 2017
hrsg. und mit einer Einführung von Simona Ciuccio, Texten von Erich Franz und Antonio Calderara
160 S., 80 Farbabb., 26,5 x 20 cm, Hardcover Leinen Schutzumschlag
€ 38,-
Antonio Calderara, Hommage zum 100. Geburtstag
Katalog zur Ausst. in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung
(in der Pinakothek der Moderne), München, 2003
und dem Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop
Texte von Wolf Wezel, Heinz Liesbrock,
Michael Semff, Andreas Strobl
88 S., 50 farb. Abb. , 18 x 25 cm, brosch.
€ 25,-
Antonio Calderara, Dipinti 1926 – 1971
Catalogue of the exhibition at Museo Morandi, Bologna, 2004
Editor: Peter Weiermair; Texts (ital./engl.) by Francesco Saba Sardi,
Heinz Gappmayr, Heinz Liesbrock, Lorella Giudici
124 pages, 49 colour and 3 b/w illustrations,
24,5 x 28,5 cm, hardcover
€ 35,-
Antonio Calderara, l'opera astratta
Catalogue of the exhibition at Museo del Paesaggio, 2008
188 pages, 70 colour illustrations,
30,5 x 24 cm
€ 35,-
Antonio Calderara
Museum Ritter, 2011
zweisprachige Ausgabe deutsch-english
160 Seiten, Hardcover mit Leineneinband
ISBN: 978-3-88423-376-4
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