Giorgio Ferro

Giorgio Ferro

Son of Galliano, he was born in Murano in 1931. He studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice. From 1951 to 1955 he worked at A.V.E.M. 's as a designer, and was concerned mainly with...

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Antonio Ferro

  Antonio Ferro was an influential figure in the Murano glass industry, founding the furnace Arte Vetraria Muranese (A.Ve.M.) in 1932. He established this furnace along with his sons, Egidio and Ot...

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Egidio Ferro

Son of Antonio, born in Murano in 1889 and died there in 1968. He worked for the C.V.M. and later, during the 20s. In 1932 together with other partners he establised A.Ve.M., where he went on produ...

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Ottone Ferro

Son of Antonio and master glassblower, he has been one of the A.V.E.M.'s founding partners. At the XXV Venice Biennale, in 1950, he presented bowls and vases having new chromatic effects obtai...

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Luciano Ferro

Son of Egidio, he was born in Murano in 1925 and died there in 1972. During the 60s he worked as a master glassblower and occasionally as a designer for A.Ve.M. ins close partnership with Anzolo Fu...

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Raffaele Ferro

Master glassblower at the MVM Cappellin & Co. firm. He exhibited his creations in 1927 at the III International Biennale of Figurative Arts in Monza.

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Piero Fornasetti

Born in Milan in 1913 where he died in 1988. After having studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the Higher School of Applied Art, he joined the artists of the "Gruppo Novecento". In...

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Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

Born in Rosario de Santa Fe' (Argentina) in 1899, he died in 1968 in Comabbio (Varese, Italy).He atttended the Brera Academy in Milan, during the 30s he got in touch with lombardic abstract artists...

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Gino Fort

In 1946 he has been one of the founding partners of the Gino Cenedese & Figlio firm.

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Anzolo Fuga

Anzolo Fuga

Born in Murano in 1915, he studied at the Carmini State Institute of Art in Venice with Guido Balsamo Stella . In 1939 he graduated in graphic arts, design and artistic stained glass. Together ...

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Mario Gambaro

Mario Gambaro

Born in Murano in 1941 and he has always lived and worked on the island. For the paste five generations, there has always been at least one important maestro in his family. He started his a...

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Luciano Gaspari

Luciano Gaspari

Born in Venice in 1913. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice and Bologna, he was a pupil of Virgilio Guidi and Giorgio Morandi. He participated in a number of Biennales.Luciano Gaspari is ...

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Émile Gallé

  Emile Gallé was a French glassmaker and designer born in Nancy in 1846 and died there in 1904.  He was one of the most significant exponents of Art Nouveau.  He gained experience in his father’...

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Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim

Born in New York in 1898, she died in Camposanpiero (Padua) in 1979. In 1938 she founded the Guggenheim Jeune in London. In 1949 she bought Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice, and created the epony...

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Virgilio Guidi

Born in Rome in 1891, died in Venice in 1984. Pupil to Giulio Aristide Sartorio at Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He was active in Venice from 1927 to 1935 and later came back to settle during the...

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Franz Pelzel

Born in Huttendorf in 1900, he died in Murano in 1974. He studied at the Fachschule in Haida (Novy Bor, Czech Republic). After 1922 he worked in Florence together with Guido Balsamo Stella and...

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Renato Guttuso

Renato Guttuso

Born in Bagheria in 1912, died in Rome in 1987. After classical studies in Palermo he moved to Rome in 1931 to exhibit at the I Quadriennale. He was in Milan from 1935 to 1937, in contact with...

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Edward Hald

Born in 1883, died in 1980. One of the most representative glass engraver, capable of giving expressionist shapes to the material. He attended the Art Studio in Copenhagen and late...

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