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The Museum of Avant-garde

Enrico Prampolini

Italy (1894—1956)

After his studies at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome, Prampolini was in contact with members of various avant-garde artists from Picasso to Jean Cocteau, Mondrian to Kandinsky. Although one of the most prominent figures in Futurism, he was also close to other groups such as Dada and Section d’Or, Cercle et Carré, Abraction-Création, Bauhaus and De Stijl, working as an artist and architect at the same time. He collaborated with the magazine Varietas and founded Noi few years later. Still very young he created stage design for Thaïs and Perfido incanto Futurist movies. He founded the Casa d’Arte Italiana and the Teatro della Pantomima Futurista, for which he continued to work on set design. He also set out the international exhibition in San Francisco and New York, creating decorative panelling on some of the rooms and dedicated himself to the exploration of polimaterismo.

Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Tristan Tzara

Dada 1

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / Zürich, 1917

Enrico Prampolini / Walter Serner / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan

Bleu

Magazine / Letterpress / 25 x 37 cm / Mantova, 1920-1921

Enrico Prampolini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Paolo Buzzi / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Teatro

Anno V. n. 3 / Magazine / Letterpress / 22.2 x 28.8 cm / Milan, 1927

Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Tristan Tzara

Dada 2

Recueil littéraire et artistique / Magazine / Letterpress / 19.5 x 22.9 cm / Zürich, 1917

Willi Baumeister / Enrico Prampolini / Michel Seuphor / Gino Severini / Joaquín Torres García / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman / César Domela / Vilmos Huszár / Georges Vantongerloo / Henryk Stażewski / Jean Arp / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / Pablo Picasso / Kurt Schwitters / Piet Mondriaan

Cercle et carré

Magazine / Offset / 23.8 x 32.2 cm / Paris, 1930

Guillaume Apollinaire / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Hans Richter / Philippe Soupault / Pierre Albert-Birot / Vicente Huidobro / Jean Arp / Francis Picabia / Tristan Tzara

Dada 3

Magazine / Letterpress / 23.8 x 31.4 cm / Zürich, 1918

Hannes Meyer / Jozef Peeters / Enrico Prampolini / Wassily Kandinsky / László Moholy-Nagy

De Driehoek

Maandschrift voor konstruktivistische Kunst / Magazine / 27.5 x 36.5 cm / Antwerp, 1925-1926

Anton Giulio Bragaglia / Marcel Janco / Enrico Prampolini / Gino Severini / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Giorgio de Chirico / Paolo Buzzi / Juan Gris / Vilmos Huszár / Jean Arp / Fortunato Depero / Fernand Léger / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / Varvara Stepanova / Vladimir Tatlin / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg

Noi

Rivista d’arte futurista / Magazine / Letterpress / 24 x 33.8 cm / Rome, 1917-1925

Francesco Cangiullo / Enrico Prampolini / Giacomo Balla / Umberto Boccioni / Carlo Carrà / Corrado Govoni / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

La balza futurista

Futurist bi-weekly / 17 x 24 cm / Messina, 1915

Francesco Cangiullo / Enrico Prampolini / Fortunato Depero / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Esposizione libera futurista

Exhibition catalogue / Letterpress / 12 x 16.8 cm / Rome, 1914