Vittore Bocchetta
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Vittore Bocchetta is an Italian sculptor, painter, and academic. Bocchetta was a member of the anti-fascist Italian resistance movement
during World War II
.
to a military engineer. After his childhood in Sardinia
, he moved with his family first to Bologna
and then to Verona
. Even if belonging to a family of artists,
his parents did not permit him to paint or draw because they were afraid that he might be distracted from his education.
After his father's early death in 1935, he went back to Sardinia with his family. He received a degree in classical humanities in Cagliari
in 1938. Then, he returned to Verona and was admitted to the University of Florence, faculty of classical humanities and history of philosophy, where he graduated in 1944. He earned a living by teaching private lessons and as a professor of classical humanities at Ginnasio Maffei (1939) and Istituto alle Stimate
(1942) in Verona.
led him to be reported to the Fascist Italian authorities in 1941.
He was soon involved in underground anti-Fascist activities.
On September 9, 1943, the day after the occupation of Verona by the German army, he contributed to the liberation of several hundreds of Italian soldiers from the Carlo Montanari barracks, where they were kept prisoners by the Nazis.
He was jailed for the first time in November 1943 together with his group of anti-Fascist comrades.
Among the rare moments of comfort there were the visits of Father Chiot, the prison chaplain.
When released in February 1944, he became a member of the local unit of the National Liberation Committee
as an independent.
He had just enough time to graduate in Florence in May 1944 and was again arrested by the Fascist Italian police in July 1944. After two weeks of interrogation and torture, he was handed over to the SD
, the intelligence service of the SS
, and tortured once more.
After a brief stay in the Bolzano Transit Camp
, he was deported on September 4, 1944 to the Flossenbürg concentration camp
where he was registered with the number 21631. On September 30, 1944 he was destined for the subsidiary camp of Hersbruck
where he was used in forced labor of digging a tunnel to a nearby mountain (Houbirg) near Happurg
.
Within a few months he witnessed the death of several of his comrades from Verona. He managed to survive thanks to a series of fortuitous circumstances and his relatively young age (26 years).
In early April 1945, with the approach of US and UK forces, the Hersbruck camp was evacuated by the Germans and the survivors had to move towards southern Bavaria with so-called death marches
.
During one of the stages, near Schmidmühlen
, he managed to escape together with a deported French. He dropped unconscious in front of the fence of Stalag 383, a camp for Allied prisoners of war at Hohenfels
, by that time virtually left unattended by the German Nazis. He was cared for and nurtured by a group of Allied prisoners and recovered gradually. Liberated by the Americans in May 1945, after a stay in Regensburg
, he finally returned to Italy in June 1945.
However, he soon realized that the same fascists in different shirts were in power and was forced to leave Italy.
In Buenos Aires he applied for a teaching position at the university there, but his credentials were not accepted. He was forced to accept a job in a ceramics factory, where he realized his talent in sculpture.
His sculptures were exhibited for the first time in Quilmes (Buenos Aires) in 1952. He was awarded for Mother Earth, a project for a monument that he actually developed 20 years later in Chicago. His ceramic miniatures were exhibited and sold at Harrods Buenos Aires
as collector's items.
The unstable political climate prompted by the Perón regime forced him to close his own ceramics factory he had bought in Buenos Aires. He left Argentina in 1954.
He went to Caracas, Venezuela, where he earned a living by teaching Latin, painting murals and creating maquettes, sketches, and projects that have since been realized as elements of the Paseo de los Illustres, a memorial park in Caracas.
Also in Venezuela, the political and social climate was not favorable under the dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez
. During a stay in the United States he learned of the coup in Venezuela in January 1958 and decided not to return to Caracas, abandoning all his works.
Subsequently he became an instructor of Spanish at Saint Xavier College, Chicago; lecturer in Italian at the University of Chicago
, where he earned his second doctorate in Romance languages and literature in 1967; instructor of Spanish at Indiana University
; professor of Comparative Literature at Roosevelt University
; assistant professor of Spanish Literature at Loyola University Chicago
.
Between 1963 and 1967, he authored or coauthored Italian-English and Latin-English dictionaries. The Italian-English dictionary was published in various editions and reprints up to 1985.
He was again involved in production of commercial statuettes but finally passed to larger sculptures, such as Daedalus (1964) that he considered his first true work of art. He used various materials like bronze, stainless steel, alabaster, and marble. He used to cast his own bronzes and came to the process of creating a thin layer of bronze surrounding a core of plastic.
In 1966, he taught conversational Italian with his 13-week television series When in Rome, broadcast by WTTW
.
Between 1969 and 1973 his work was exhibited in eight one-man shows in Detroit, New York, and in particular at John Hancock Center
, Chicago, that had just been opened by that time.
In 1975, following an exhibition at Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
, a selection of his works was auctioned in the Auditorium of the American Dental Association
, Chicago, for the benefit of the American Cancer Society
.
Between 1970 and 1976 he published, with Editorial Gredos, Madrid, two scholarly books on Latin and Spanish Golden Age literature and one on 20th century western philosophy. His book Horacio en Villegas y en Fray Luis de León won him an ad honorem membership in 1972 at the Ovidium Society, University of Bucharest..
Several sculptures of his are among public monuments in Chicago, including Mother Earth, in the inner courtyard of the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, The Egg Man and Man in the Sand, in 201 East Chestnut Street.
The first work of this period is Cypress, an obelisk of stainless steel over 7 meters high. It is a monument in memory of the six young heroes that on July 17, 1944 attacked the prison of Verona and freed an important anti-Fascist leader.
The sculpture was inaugurated on April 25, 1988, during the official commemoration of the liberation of Italy from Nazi-Fascists, right in the ground where the prison was once located. The following year (1989), during the official April 25 commemoration, the monument to Father Chiot, chaplain of the prison, was unveiled just opposite.
In 1989 he settled permanently in Verona and published the first edition of his autobiography regarding the period 1940-1945, which he subsequently revised and corrected several times following the discovery of new documents. He published the English translation in 1991 and the German translation in 2003. The book also represented the plot of the documentary Spiriti liberi, 1941–1945, Ribelli a Verona produced by City of Verona and Wider das Vergessen (Do not Forget) directed by the German Claus Dobberke and premiered at the Film Museum in Potsdam
on January 27, 2007, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
.
He committed himself to defend the memory of the resistance against Nazi-Fascism with speeches, meetings in schools, articles in newspapers and magazines.
In 1995 he published an essay on the involvement of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Nazi Germany and its substantial impunity following the Nuremberg trial of 1947-1948
.
Since 2001, he repeatedly traveled to Germany where a group of intellectuals founded the association Freundeskreis Vittore Bocchetta - Non Dimenticare that promoted his participation in various initiatives as a witness and victim of the Nazi period.
From 2003 to 2006, his sculptures and paintings were exhibited in various German cities with a traveling exhibition. On May 8, 2007 he took part in the unveiling of his sculpture Ohne Namen (Without Name) at the site of the extermination camp at Hersbruck from which he miraculously escaped in 1945.
Italian resistance movement
The Italian resistance is the umbrella term for the various partisan forces formed by pro-Allied Italians during World War II...
during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
.
Biography
Vittore Bocchetta was born in SassariSassari
Sassari is an Italian city. It is the second-largest city of Sardinia in terms of population with about 130,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the greater metropolitan area...
to a military engineer. After his childhood in Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
, he moved with his family first to Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
and then to Verona
Verona
Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...
. Even if belonging to a family of artists,
his parents did not permit him to paint or draw because they were afraid that he might be distracted from his education.
After his father's early death in 1935, he went back to Sardinia with his family. He received a degree in classical humanities in Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
in 1938. Then, he returned to Verona and was admitted to the University of Florence, faculty of classical humanities and history of philosophy, where he graduated in 1944. He earned a living by teaching private lessons and as a professor of classical humanities at Ginnasio Maffei (1939) and Istituto alle Stimate
Istituto alle stimate
Istituto "Alle Stimate" is a middle and high school in the center of Verona, Italy. There is a Classical High School, where the main subjects are Greek and Latin; a Scientific High School where the main subjects are maths and biology; in the Linguistic High School Spanish, German and English are...
(1942) in Verona.
Activity during Italian resistance (1940-1945)
His dedication to the principles of political freedomLiberty
Liberty is a moral and political principle, or Right, that identifies the condition in which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will, and take responsibility for their actions...
led him to be reported to the Fascist Italian authorities in 1941.
He was soon involved in underground anti-Fascist activities.
On September 9, 1943, the day after the occupation of Verona by the German army, he contributed to the liberation of several hundreds of Italian soldiers from the Carlo Montanari barracks, where they were kept prisoners by the Nazis.
He was jailed for the first time in November 1943 together with his group of anti-Fascist comrades.
Among the rare moments of comfort there were the visits of Father Chiot, the prison chaplain.
When released in February 1944, he became a member of the local unit of the National Liberation Committee
National Liberation Committee
The National Liberation Committee was the underground political entity of Italian Partisans during the German occupation of Italy in the last years of the Second World War. It was a multi-party entity, whose members were united by their anti-fascism...
as an independent.
He had just enough time to graduate in Florence in May 1944 and was again arrested by the Fascist Italian police in July 1944. After two weeks of interrogation and torture, he was handed over to the SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...
, the intelligence service of the SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
, and tortured once more.
After a brief stay in the Bolzano Transit Camp
Bolzano Transit Camp
The Bolzano transit camp was a Nazi concentration camp active in Bolzano between 1944 and the end of the Second World War. It was one of the largest Nazi Lager on Italian soil, along with those of Fossoli, Borgo San Dalmazzo and Trieste.-History:...
, he was deported on September 4, 1944 to the Flossenbürg concentration camp
Flossenbürg concentration camp
Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the Schutzstaffel Economic-Administrative Main Office at Flossenbürg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia. Until its liberation in April 1945, more than 96,000 prisoners...
where he was registered with the number 21631. On September 30, 1944 he was destined for the subsidiary camp of Hersbruck
Hersbruck
Hersbruck is a small town in Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, belonging to the district Nürnberger Land. Famous for the late-gothic artwork of the Hersbruck altar, the "Hirtenmuseum" and the beautiful landscape of the "Hersbrucker Schweiz".-History:...
where he was used in forced labor of digging a tunnel to a nearby mountain (Houbirg) near Happurg
Happurg
Happurg is a municipality in the district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria in Germany. During World War II, a subcamp of Flossenburg concentration camp was located here.- References :...
.
Within a few months he witnessed the death of several of his comrades from Verona. He managed to survive thanks to a series of fortuitous circumstances and his relatively young age (26 years).
In early April 1945, with the approach of US and UK forces, the Hersbruck camp was evacuated by the Germans and the survivors had to move towards southern Bavaria with so-called death marches
Death marches (Holocaust)
The death marches refer to the forcible movement between Autumn 1944 and late April 1945 by Nazi Germany of thousands of prisoners from German concentration camps near the war front to camps inside Germany.-General:...
.
During one of the stages, near Schmidmühlen
Schmidmühlen
Schmidmühlen is a municipality in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria in Germany....
, he managed to escape together with a deported French. He dropped unconscious in front of the fence of Stalag 383, a camp for Allied prisoners of war at Hohenfels
Hohenfels
Hohenfels is a municipality in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....
, by that time virtually left unattended by the German Nazis. He was cared for and nurtured by a group of Allied prisoners and recovered gradually. Liberated by the Americans in May 1945, after a stay in Regensburg
Regensburg
Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...
, he finally returned to Italy in June 1945.
The postwar period (1945-1948)
Upon returning to Italy after the war, he conflicted with party politics that criticized his decision to remain independent. He experienced difficulty in finding employment, but in 1947 he was rewarded by the Italian government for a bravura production of the medieval poem The Passion of Christ, the first work staged in modern times in the Teatro Romano in Verona.However, he soon realized that the same fascists in different shirts were in power and was forced to leave Italy.
In Argentina and Venezuela (1949-1958)
He left Italy for Argentina in January 1949 as a correspondent for Verona's newspaper L'Arena.In Buenos Aires he applied for a teaching position at the university there, but his credentials were not accepted. He was forced to accept a job in a ceramics factory, where he realized his talent in sculpture.
His sculptures were exhibited for the first time in Quilmes (Buenos Aires) in 1952. He was awarded for Mother Earth, a project for a monument that he actually developed 20 years later in Chicago. His ceramic miniatures were exhibited and sold at Harrods Buenos Aires
Harrods Buenos Aires
Harrods Buenos Aires is a historic commercial building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, formerly a branch of Harrods of London.- History :Established in 1914 on 877 Florida Street as the only overseas branch of the renowned Harrods of London, the department store was expanded in 1920, and grew to occupy...
as collector's items.
The unstable political climate prompted by the Perón regime forced him to close his own ceramics factory he had bought in Buenos Aires. He left Argentina in 1954.
He went to Caracas, Venezuela, where he earned a living by teaching Latin, painting murals and creating maquettes, sketches, and projects that have since been realized as elements of the Paseo de los Illustres, a memorial park in Caracas.
Also in Venezuela, the political and social climate was not favorable under the dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was a soldier and Presidents of Venezuela from 1952 to 1958.-Career:Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez was born in Michelena, Táchira State. His father, Juan Pérez Bustamante, was a farmer; his mother, Adela Jiménez, a schoolteacher...
. During a stay in the United States he learned of the coup in Venezuela in January 1958 and decided not to return to Caracas, abandoning all his works.
In Chicago (1958-1986)
In the United States, penniless and unable to speak English, he was forced to earn a living by painting commercial murals that he detested and never signed.Subsequently he became an instructor of Spanish at Saint Xavier College, Chicago; lecturer in Italian at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, where he earned his second doctorate in Romance languages and literature in 1967; instructor of Spanish at Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
; professor of Comparative Literature at Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University
Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university's curriculum is based on...
; assistant professor of Spanish Literature at Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...
.
Between 1963 and 1967, he authored or coauthored Italian-English and Latin-English dictionaries. The Italian-English dictionary was published in various editions and reprints up to 1985.
He was again involved in production of commercial statuettes but finally passed to larger sculptures, such as Daedalus (1964) that he considered his first true work of art. He used various materials like bronze, stainless steel, alabaster, and marble. He used to cast his own bronzes and came to the process of creating a thin layer of bronze surrounding a core of plastic.
In 1966, he taught conversational Italian with his 13-week television series When in Rome, broadcast by WTTW
WTTW
WTTW channel 11 is one of three Public Broadcasting Service member public television stations serving the Chicago, Illinois market; the others are WYCC and WYIN. WTTW began broadcasting on September 6, 1955 and it is owned and operated by Window to the World Communications, Inc., a not-for-profit...
.
Between 1969 and 1973 his work was exhibited in eight one-man shows in Detroit, New York, and in particular at John Hancock Center
John Hancock Center
John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot tall skyscraper, constructed under the supervision of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, with chief designer Bruce Graham and structural engineer Fazlur Khan...
, Chicago, that had just been opened by that time.
In 1975, following an exhibition at Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
Chicago Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. It is located in the Loop, across Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park...
, a selection of his works was auctioned in the Auditorium of the American Dental Association
American Dental Association
The American Dental Association is an American professional association established in 1859 which has more than 155,000 members. Based in Chicago, the ADA is the world's largest and oldest national dental association and promotes good oral health to the public while representing the dental...
, Chicago, for the benefit of the American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization" dedicated, in their own words, "to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and...
.
Between 1970 and 1976 he published, with Editorial Gredos, Madrid, two scholarly books on Latin and Spanish Golden Age literature and one on 20th century western philosophy. His book Horacio en Villegas y en Fray Luis de León won him an ad honorem membership in 1972 at the Ovidium Society, University of Bucharest..
Several sculptures of his are among public monuments in Chicago, including Mother Earth, in the inner courtyard of the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, The Egg Man and Man in the Sand, in 201 East Chestnut Street.
Return to Italy
From 1986 to 1989 he spent several months each year in Verona, working on literary and artistic projects with a view to "polish and defend his memories".The first work of this period is Cypress, an obelisk of stainless steel over 7 meters high. It is a monument in memory of the six young heroes that on July 17, 1944 attacked the prison of Verona and freed an important anti-Fascist leader.
The sculpture was inaugurated on April 25, 1988, during the official commemoration of the liberation of Italy from Nazi-Fascists, right in the ground where the prison was once located. The following year (1989), during the official April 25 commemoration, the monument to Father Chiot, chaplain of the prison, was unveiled just opposite.
In 1989 he settled permanently in Verona and published the first edition of his autobiography regarding the period 1940-1945, which he subsequently revised and corrected several times following the discovery of new documents. He published the English translation in 1991 and the German translation in 2003. The book also represented the plot of the documentary Spiriti liberi, 1941–1945, Ribelli a Verona produced by City of Verona and Wider das Vergessen (Do not Forget) directed by the German Claus Dobberke and premiered at the Film Museum in Potsdam
Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
on January 27, 2007, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime.. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly...
.
He committed himself to defend the memory of the resistance against Nazi-Fascism with speeches, meetings in schools, articles in newspapers and magazines.
In 1995 he published an essay on the involvement of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Nazi Germany and its substantial impunity following the Nuremberg trial of 1947-1948
IG Farben Trial
The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al., also known as the IG Farben Trial, was the sixth of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany after the end of World War II....
.
Since 2001, he repeatedly traveled to Germany where a group of intellectuals founded the association Freundeskreis Vittore Bocchetta - Non Dimenticare that promoted his participation in various initiatives as a witness and victim of the Nazi period.
From 2003 to 2006, his sculptures and paintings were exhibited in various German cities with a traveling exhibition. On May 8, 2007 he took part in the unveiling of his sculpture Ohne Namen (Without Name) at the site of the extermination camp at Hersbruck from which he miraculously escaped in 1945.
Exhibitions
- Quilmes (Buenos Aires), Argentina, Consejo Municipal, 1952.
- Caracas (Distrito Federal), Venezuela, Paseo de los Ilustres, 1956.
- Detroit (Michigan), US, Detroit Bank & Trust Company, 1969.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, Upper Avenue National Bank, John Hancock Center, 1970.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, J. Walter Thompson Company, John Hancock Center, 1970.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, Aetna Bank, 1970.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, John Hancock Center, 1971; 1973.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, Siegel Galleries, 1971-1977.
- New York (New York), US, Lynn Kottler Galleries, 1973.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, Merrill Chase Galleries, 1974–1978; 1983; 1984.
- Chicago (Illinois), US, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, 1975.
- Verona, Italy, Palazzo della Ragione, 1991.
- Verona, Italy, Officina d'arte, corso Porta Borsari 17, 1995.
- Caprino VeroneseCaprino VeroneseCaprino Veronese is a comune in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 km west of Venice and about 30 km northwest of Verona....
(Verona), Italy, Villa Carlotti, 1995. - Verona, Italy, Art Gallery Leonardo, 1996.
- DetmoldDetmoldDetmold is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of about 74,000. It was the capital of the small Principality of Lippe from 1468 until 1918 and then of the Free State of Lippe until 1947...
(North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany, Lippischen Landesbibliothek, 2003. - WolfsburgWolfsburgWolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...
(Lower Saxony), Germany, Centro Italiano, 2004. - PotsdamPotsdamPotsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
(Brandenburg), Germany, Altes Rathaus, 2004. - LüdenscheidLüdenscheidLüdenscheid is a town in the Märkischer Kreis district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the Sauerland region. Lüdenscheid is seat of the administration of the Märkischer Kreis district...
(North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany, Sparkasse, 2005. - KasselKasselKassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
(Hesse), Germany, Justizzentrum, 2005. - WeimarWeimarWeimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...
(Thuringia), Germany, Literaturhaus, 2006. - NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
(Bavaria), Germany, Dokumentationszentrum, 2011.
Public monuments
- Narcissus and Black Hole, in the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, 1965.
- Painter and Potter, at Ortho-Tain Inc., Bayamon, Puerto Rico, 1966.
- The Egg Man and Man in the Sand, in 201 East Chestnut Street, Chicago, 1968.
- Mother Earth, in the Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, 1971.
- Expansion, at Household International Inc., Prospect Heights, Illinois, 1983.
- Cipresso, in the cloister of the church Chiesa degli ScalziScalzi (Verona)The church of the Scalzi is a religious building in Verona, named after the Discalced Carmelites who commissioned it. The order had arrived in Verona in 1663 and was initially housed in a Dominican monastery...
, Verona, Italy, 1988. - Don Chiot, in largo Don Chiot, Verona, Italy, 1989.
- Omaggio a Pertini, near Villa Carlotti, Caprino Veronese, Verona, Italy, 1995.
- Ohne Namen, in the memorial site of the concentration camp of Hersbruck, Germany, 2007.
Writings
ISBN 8424933761. ISBN 8424933869. ISBN 8424934792. ISBN 0533084997. ISBN 0533086876. ISBN 8886039441. ISBN 8886039352. ISBN 3-89918-118-2. ISBN 3-89918-120-4.Documentary films
- KZ Hersbruck - und das Doggerwerk, directed by Gerhard Faul (2000)
- Speciale Deportazione, directed by Antonello Lai - Tele Costa Smeralda (2000)
- Testimonianze dai Lager, directed by Eraldo Mangano - Rai Educational (2002)
- Spiriti liberi, 1941–1945, Ribelli a Verona, directed by Stefano Paiusco - Comune di Verona (2004)
- Non Dimenticare (Wider das Vergessen), directed by Claus Dobberke and Stefan Mehlhorn (2007)