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Fondazione Palazzo Ducale Genova
Wolfsoniana Musei di Nervi via Serra Gropallo 4, 16167 Genova Nervi (November to March): Wednesday to Sunday, 11.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m.; Closed on Monday orario estivo (April to October): Wednesday to Friday, 11.00 a.m. – 06.00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 12.00 a.m. – 7.00 p.m.; Closed on Monday tel: 010 32313329 http://www.wolfsoniana.it
The Collection
It is an original and varied collection comprising objects and works of art dating from 1880 to 1945. An excursion among the works of the collection becomes a fascinating documentary:
- on the changes in taste and style within private abodes and public buildings,
- on the urban transformation processes,
- on the relationship between art and political propaganda,
- on the evolution of means of transport,
- on the development of technology and its influence on the working world and the spreading of new social behaviour.
The collection – with more then 18.000 items – comprises:
- architectural drawings, graphics, posters, sketches and drawings (the collection Archives),
- books, publications, posters (the collection Library),
- paintings, sculptures, furniture, complete furnishings, glass, ceramics, metalwork, silver objects (the collection Objects),
The Collection in Genoa. From July 1999 the Wolfson Collection in Genoa was entrusted to the Fondazione Regionale Cristoforo Colombo in view of its definitive donation to the same institution and with the aim of increasing both the existing activities and the collection by means of a donation and new acquisitions program.
The Furnishings
The Wolfsonian furnishings you shall find are by:
Ernesto Basile, Leopold Bauer, Piero Bottoni, Carlo Bugatti, Duilio Cambellotti, Ugo Ceruti, Bottega Coppedè, Luigi Carlo Daneri, Fabio e Alberto Fabbi, Paolo Campodonico, Odon Faragò, Luigi Fontana & C., Vittorio Grassi, Gaspar Homar, Alberto Issel, Melchiorre Melis, Gabriele Mucchi, Giovanni Muzio, Pietro Lingeri, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Giuseppe Pagano e Gino Levi Montalcini, Bruno Paul, Marcello Piacentini, Eugenio Quarti, Emanuele Rambaldi, Antonio Rubino, Ulisse Stacchini, Luigi Vietti, Ettore Zaccari, Fratelli Zatti, Vittorio Zecchin, Carlo Zen.
The Paintings
The authors of the Wolfson paintings are the following:
Giorgio M. Aicardi, Cesare Andreoni, Baccio Maria Bacci, Benedetta, Silvio Bicchi, Gino Boccasile, Aroldo Bonzagni, Girolamo Cairati, Gigi Caldanzano, Sexto Canegallo, Galileo Chini, Elena Ciamarra Cammarano, Giuseppe Cominetti, Romano Dazzi, Adolfo De Carolis, Stanis Dessy, Renato Di Bosso, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Gerardo Dottori, Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Maria Ferrero Gussago, Alberto H. Gagliardo, Ivanhoe Gambini, Alf Gaudenzi, Cornelio Geranzani, Demetrio Ghiringhelli, Alba Giuppone, Giovanni Korompay, Pasquale Krischan, Ugo Martelli, Giuseppe Mazzei, Rubaldo Merello, Plinio Nomellini, Carlo Potente, Enrico Prampolini, Antonio Quaiatti, Mim Quilici Buzzacchi, Elio Randazzo, Alberto Salietti, Antonio G. Santagata, Giuseppe Sciuti, Mario Sironi, Ernesto Thayaht, Ubaldo Cosimo Veneziani, Franz Volpe, Verossì.
The Sculptures
The authors of the Wolfson sculptures are the following:
Edoardo Alfieri, Eugenio Baroni, Alberto Bazzoni, Leonardo Bistolfi, Arno Brecker, Aldo Buttini, Duilio Cambellotti, Alimondo Ciampi, Raffaello Consortini, Edoardo De Albertis, Celestino Fumagalli, Guido Galletti, Paul Henry Graf, Loys Houriet, Tony Lucarda, Adolfo Lucarini, Antonio Maraini, Rubaldo Merello, Arrigo Minerbi, Mario Palanti, Carlo Pizzi, Giuseppe Romagnoli, Giovanni Scapolla, Nanni Servettaz, Ernesto Thayaht, Sirio Tofanari, Pavel Troubetzkoy.
The Posters
The authors of the Wolfson posters are:
Gino Boccasile, Aroldo Bonzagni, Mario Caffaro Rore, Leonetto Cappiello, Plinio Codognato, David Delle Piane, Marcello Dudovich, Nico Edel, Giovanni Greppi, Mario Marchi, Plinio Nomellini, Angelo Pisani, Filiberto Scarpelli
The Ceramics
The authors of the Wolfson ceramics are:
Guido Andlovitz, Jean Barol, Dante Baldelli, Romeo Berardi, Renato Bassanelli, Romeo Bevilacqua,Duilio Cambellotti, Cantagalli, Ceramic Art Company, Galileo Chini, Nicolaj Diulgheroff, Piero Fornasetti, Giovanni Gariboldi, Goldscheider, Vittorio Grassi, Colette Gueden, Abele Jacopi, Lenci, Emanuele Luzzati, Achille L. Mauzan, Melchiorre Melis, MGA, Olga Modigliani, Ivos Pacetti, Ferruccio Palazzi, Gio Ponti, Domenico Rambelli, Red Wing, Richard Ginori, Rometti, Roberto Rosati, Giulio Rufa, La Salamandra, Siegmund Schutz, Società, Ceramiche Italiane Laveno, SPICA, Zaccagnini
The Glass
The authors of the Wolfson glass are:
Guglielmo Barbini, Luigi Brusotti, Duilio Cambellotti, Fontana Arte, Dino Martens, Salviati, Timo Sarpaneva, Venini, Vetrate Artistiche G. Beltrami, Webb Corbett, WMF, Vittorio Zecchin.
