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Ruggiero Alfredo Michahelles also known as RAM (Florence 1898 –1976), was born into a cosmopolitan family, and spent his childhood and adolescence in the villa near Poggio Imperiale. In 1914 he began his exhibition activity and his long association with his brother Ernesto Michahelles -Thayaht with whom he shared projects and programmatic posters for years. Read the full biography

Ruggiero Alfredo Michahelles also known as RAM (Florence 1898 –1976), was born into a cosmopolitan family, and spent his childhood and adolescence in the villa near Poggio Imperiale. In 1914 he began his exhibition activity and his long association with his brother Ernesto Michahelles -Thayaht with whom he shared projects and programmatic posters for years. In 1920 he collaborated with his brother Thayaht on the invention of the TuTa, a futuristic and egalitarian dress, cut in the shape of a T, simple to make and economical in opposition to bourgeois fashion. In the meantime, he took part in Florentine artistic life, in the organization of the Fine Arts Corporation and the 1st Arts Union in Florence. Meanwhile, he joined the "Tuscan Futurist Group" and all the futurist demonstrations, coining the pseudonym "RAM". From 1925 to 1931 he collaborated on various editorial publications, for which he created covers and illustrations. He also creates various advertisements and billboards, including one for FIAT. In 1927 in Paris he frequented artists such as Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Marino Marini, Carlo Carrà, Filippo de Pisis, Joan Mirò, Alberto Savinio, Ezra Pound and others. In 1928 his first solo exhibition was held in Florence and in that same year he exhibited at the XXVI Venice Biennale. In 1929 he signed the poster of the Viareggio Carnival and the cover of the official magazine Viareggio in Maschera, a cover used on the same magazine in 2019. He continues to exhibit in futurist exhibitions, including, in 1931, the exhibition in Milan at the Mostra Futurist of Aeropainting and Scenography at the Pesaro Gallery. In 1931, he participated in the First Quadrennial of Rome. From 1931 to 1938 he created a series of works in Paris that were completely destroyed by the bombings of the Second World War. At the end of the conflict, in 1945, he continued his pictorial research, secluded and in solitude. From the second half of the 1940s he continued to exhibit until 1968, the date of his last solo exhibition in Florence at the Michelangelo Gallery in Palazzo Antinori.