Luigi Broggini Biography
Luigi Broggini (1908 - 1983) was an Italian sculptor. He studied at the Brera Academy, where he followed the lessons of Adolfo Wildt and Vitaliano Marchini. In 1929 he stayed in Paris and in 1930 in Belgium and Switzerland. In 1932 he went to Rome where he became acquainted with the expressionism of the Roman School, saw the sculptures of the masters of the past in real life and decided to dedicate himself to drawing. Upon returning to Milan, he created one of the key works of his artistic production, the Portrait of a Boy, 1932-35, a bronze head with protruding ears. 1935 marks an important stage, with the Sick Child, of a painful intensity, with the Bas-relief, of a harsh and tormented violence, and with the Portrait of a Boy, works which in a certain sense conclude the first experiences, understood with insistence to free from his tormented sensitivity forms of immediate and direct lyrical ignition. Broggini continues his research by reflecting on the human figure, on the dramas that Italy is experiencing, on the little time we have available and this is how in 1938 he created Figura al sole and Ballerina which, clearly derived from Degas, loses its proverbial balance posing in an awkward and precarious pose, and the skin becomes a bark made of protrusions and indentations. The sculptor likes this dynamic effect for the play of matter and light, which allows him to examine the human body in its entirety, shaping internal fragility and precariousness through the physical.
