Sergio Burzi

Italian painter

Sergio Burzi
Born	October 1901 Bologna, Italy
Died	1954 Bologna
Nationality	Italian
Occupation(s)	Painter, illustrator

Sergio Burzi (1901 – 1954), was an Italian painter and illustrator. He was a versatile artist, specialised in the illustration of magazines and children's books, as well as a creative watercolour painter of landscapes and marine subjects.^[1]

Afflicted by mental illness, at 27 he was hospitalised in a mental health clinic, where he continued to draw his surroundings, ambience and people. Discharged in 1934, Burzi resumed his artistic activity in his studio in Bologna, concentrating on the daily city life and its characters, often viewing them from his studio window. His mental problems, however, accompanied him throughout his life, also affecting his artistic output.^[2]

Burzi was well esteemed by Italian art critics, who often praised his work on fine art magazines and catalogues.^[3]

Gallery

Anglers mending nets
Fishmongers on the shore
In the abyss

Notes

^ Cfr. Sergio Burzi (1901-1954) - Disegni, Comune di Crespellano (1998).
^ Sergio Burzi (1901-1954) - Disegni, ibid., pp.5-8.
^ Cf int. al., A. Pelliccioni, in Bologna, monthly magazine by the City of Bologna Council, Year XXII, No.1, January 1935.

Bibliography

Cinti, Italo, Quarto e quinto quaderno Ratta, Comune di Bologna, XXII, n. 2 (1935)
Cristofori, Franco, Bologna come rideva, Milan (1957)
Pallottino, Paola, Regesto dei periodici esposti, Catalogue of the Exhibition "La Metafisica: gli Anni Venti", Franco Solmi e Renato Barilli eds., vol. II, Bologna (1980)
Pelliccioni, Armando, Un disegnatore di eccezione, Comune di Bologna, XXIII, n. 1 (1935)
Ratta, Cesare, Gli adornatori del libro in Italia, vol. II, Bologna (1925)
Signo, La mostra "Francesco Francia", La Battaglia, II, n. 22, Bologna (1982)
Treves, Eugenio, Libri italiani per ragazzi, Lidel, VII, n. 12, Milan (1925)
Vianelli, Athos, "Catalogo per la mostra retrospettiva", Galleria L'Ariete, Bologna (1980)

External links

List of images, from the archive of the Comune di Bologna, No. 1125, January 193: Un disegnatore d'eccezione: Sergio Burzi. (in Italian) Retrieved 13 November 2012
List of images, from the archive of the Comune di Bologna, No. 1126, January 193: Un disegnatore d'eccezione: Sergio Burzi. (in Italian) Retrieved 13 November 2012
Mondadori Archive, gallery of children bookcovers - Scampanellina (in Italian) Retrieved 13 November 2012
Sergio Burzi, Ex-Libris, su Davidson Galleries (in English) Retrieved 13 November 2012
Sergio Burzi, Ex-Libris for G. Sabatini, on Bits & Bites. (in English) Retrieved 13 November 2012
Sergio Burzi, Loro e io (Them and I), Bookcover, for a novel by J.K. Jerome, Sonzogno, Milan 1924.