Pietro Lazzari
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Pietro Lazzari was an Italian
artist and sculptor.
An influential sculptor, painter, illustrator and printmaker Pietro Lazzari received his formal education from the Ornamental School of Rome (Master Artist). After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such artists as Balla and Severini. He then moved to Paris for several years before returning to Rome where his first solo exhibition was held at the Theatre of the Independents. With the rise of Fascism Lazzari left Italy for New York in 1925. In the following year he was one of nine European artists who contributed to an important exhibition at the New Gallery. Other participating artists included Picasso, Pascin and Modigliani. During the era of the Great Depression Lazzari became an American citizen and was constantly commissioned by the Works Progress Administration for both his mural paintings and sculptures. He also participated in the influential exhibition, 'Abstract Art in America', at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the early 1940s Pietro Lazzari moved permanently to Washington DC. He established his studio there and participated in the World War Two 'National Artists for Victory' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942). During the following years Lazzari was awarded the Fullbright Fellowship and received commissions for bronze portraits of Pope Paul VI and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Pietro Lazzari was a full member of the National Society of Mural Painters, Artists Equity Association, Art Guild of Washington and the Washington Watercolor Society. He also taught sculpture and drawing techniques at the American University, Washington DC (1948–50) and at the Corcoran School of Art (1965–69). Today his sculpture, paintings and drawings are found in such major collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Georgetown University and the San Francisco Museums of Fine Art.
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artist and sculptor.
An influential sculptor, painter, illustrator and printmaker Pietro Lazzari received his formal education from the Ornamental School of Rome (Master Artist). After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such artists as Balla and Severini. He then moved to Paris for several years before returning to Rome where his first solo exhibition was held at the Theatre of the Independents. With the rise of Fascism Lazzari left Italy for New York in 1925. In the following year he was one of nine European artists who contributed to an important exhibition at the New Gallery. Other participating artists included Picasso, Pascin and Modigliani. During the era of the Great Depression Lazzari became an American citizen and was constantly commissioned by the Works Progress Administration for both his mural paintings and sculptures. He also participated in the influential exhibition, 'Abstract Art in America', at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the early 1940s Pietro Lazzari moved permanently to Washington DC. He established his studio there and participated in the World War Two 'National Artists for Victory' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942). During the following years Lazzari was awarded the Fullbright Fellowship and received commissions for bronze portraits of Pope Paul VI and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Pietro Lazzari was a full member of the National Society of Mural Painters, Artists Equity Association, Art Guild of Washington and the Washington Watercolor Society. He also taught sculpture and drawing techniques at the American University, Washington DC (1948–50) and at the Corcoran School of Art (1965–69). Today his sculpture, paintings and drawings are found in such major collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Georgetown University and the San Francisco Museums of Fine Art.