Guido Andlovitz Biography
Guido Andlovitz was born in Trieste on 7 March 1900. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and then graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan. In 1923, as soon as he graduated, he was hired as an artistic consultant for the Italian Ceramic Society of Laveno (SCI) and a few years later, in 1927, he became production director and, with the collaboration of Piero De Ambrosis and the technical director Antonio De Ambroggi, starts a production that initially looks to French models and is subsequently influenced by German and Viennese schematisms. They also try their hand at works in a futurist style. In his role as production director of "SCI" Andlovitz puts Giò Ponti's teachings into practice and applies himself to the design of products characterized by interchangeable shapes and decorations, thus combining high-level design with mass production. Between 1926 and 1929, the most profitable years of his work, for the design of the shapes and decorations he was inspired above all by the tradition of eighteenth-century Lombardy and the production of Felice Clerici's Milanese factory, reinterpreting them with great imagination and originality. Between the 1920s and 1940s he designed for "SCI" a series of objects of great stylistic innovation and notable formal purity, the best examples of which are perhaps those without decoration, among which we can certainly include the famous globular vase, called vase 1316, put into production in 1936 and considered a true masterpiece of twentieth-century European ceramic art. In 1940 he was present at the Triennale d'Arte in Milan with a "large stoneware vase" decorated with the architecture of Imperial Rome which was a great success. At the end of the 1950s he left the management of "SCI". After over forty years of collaboration with the "Società Ceramica Italiana" of Laveno Andlovitz died in Grado, the land of his childhood, in 1971. The most important works of this great master of design can be admired in the International Museum of Ceramic Design in Palazzo Parabò in Cerro di Laveno Mombello, in the province of Varese.
