Umberto Bellorro
Umberto Bellotto ( Venice , 1882 - Venice , 1940 ) was a craftsman of iron and glass Italian .
It was among the first to combine the ancient art Venetian glassmaking with that of wrought iron . Umberto Bellotto fact began to work in the workshop paternal ironworks, inherited 19 years, together with the architect Cesare Aurienti [1] with which invented and patented in 1910 a technique for " unions in iron and glass " [2] . He began working for companies glass works "Barovier artists" and "Toso brothers" , famous for processing murrina . [3]
Since the early years of the twentieth century he collaborated with various artists (including historical glassworks in Murano " Pauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia Murano ", Barovier and Venini) in construction projects is a commercial character as items of furniture, both with architects as Ferruccio Chemello ( ossuary Pasubio , 1926 ) in the public domain works. Among the most famous works, the exhibition of the gates of Bolognini Castle , the gate of the tomb of Dante Alighieri in Ravenna and railings for the Bank of Italy in Rialto .
He had numerous appearances in his career at the Venice Biennial , respectively in 1914 , 1920 , 1922 , 1924 in 1925 took part in the Monza three years , in 1927 , again in Monza, he exhibited for the Pauly & C. - Compagnia Venezia Murano [2] a personnel of the works from Deco forms of cubist derivation overlapping spheres, cones, wherein the base glass was pure crystal or bubble regularly arranged.
The artist in addition to iron pots with structures in iron and glass, typical of its production, realized for the exposure of the typical blown in 1927 by the schematic shapes and embossed areas to smooth or serrated loops in dark glass.
In 1928 he was called to Rome by fellow countryman Giuseppe Jurors then Minister for Public Works, with the post of official decorator of public buildings in the capital, therefore ceasing his artistic production [2] [3] .
In the edition of the Biennale in 1995 he was dedicated to the exhibition of five works.
A multifaceted artist in the use of metals has also tried his hand in the production of cast bronze works with lost wax , glass , ceramic , creating ornamental vases from whimsical shapes with applications that appear to be the prows of gondolas . Curiosity a big fan of his work was Gabriele D'Annunzio.
