Mar. 25 – Pietro Donzelli is a photographer, better yet, a pioneer of photographic culture in postwar Italy. Born in Monte Carlo in 1915, he passed on May 29, 1998 at the age of 83. Donzelli lived with his family in Milan, but exhibited his works in the most prestigious museums in England, France, the US and Japan. And now Germany is ready to pay homage to the Italian artist with the exhibition “Luce – Photographs by Pietro Donzelli”. The exhibition – which opens today and will remain open until Sunday, June 14 (Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Ludwig-Dörfler-Allee 9, Rüsselsheim) – was organized on occasion of the centenary of the birth of the artist. The most important photos were created in the 1950s and 1960s, when Italian neorealism favored new forms of expression in art, film and photography. Donzelli had always been attentive to those moments in which feeling manifested itself in people’s lives. In his art, Donzelli always found a good ally in light. Thanks to his work, Donzelli was able to actively promote photography as an artistic discipline, and in 1954, he worked with Luigi Veronesi on the yearbook “Italian Photographers” and, with Piero Racanicchi on “Criticism and history of photography.” (Red)
