Dolores Puthod
Dolores Puthod
Born24 June 1934 (1934-06-24) (age 90)
Milan
OccupationPainter

Dolores Puthod, born on June 24, 1934 in Milan from Italian-French parents, is an Italian painter.

Biography

Dolores Puthod joined in 1951 La Scala in Milan as assistant to Nikolai Benois. She also collaborated with Picasso,[1] Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Savinio. In 1956, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, and she continued her activities at La Scala. During the following year she holds her first solo exhibition at Circolo della stampa di Milano and in the Centro Culturale Francese di Milano.

In 1978, to mark the bicentenary of the Teatro alla Scala, she made eight tables, an exhibition that will be presented throughout the world.[2]

The following year, the Vatican through the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue commissioned an oil painting concerning ecumenism and depicting the heads of all the most important churches of the world gathered around Paul VI; in 1986, after Inter-faith Ceremony at Assisi,[3] that painting was defined prophetic.[4]

In 1980, she published, for UNICEF, a series of six lithographs presented by Cardinal Pignedoli and Mother Teresa of Calcutta.[1][5]

In 1983, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy invited to exhibit at the Opéra de Lille, in the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon, in the Palace of Savoy in Aix-les-Bains, at the House of Culture in Saint-Étienne. The following year, she made a traveling exhibition on the Commedia dell'Arte passing through the Charles Dullin Theatre in Chambéry, the Italian Embassy in Paris, the Château de la Batie d'Urfe, the House of Culture in Bourges, the House of Culture of Sochaux, the Auditorium Maurice Ravel in Lyon and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris.[6]

In 1985, she was invited to exhibit at the Institute of Italian Culture Valparaíso in Chile for the 450th anniversary of the city; in the same year the House of Culture of Bourges realized under his leadership a history of the Commedia dell'arte.

For the 25th anniversary of the Algerian Republic, the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers invited her to exhibit at the Ibn Khaldoun Theatre. Invited by the Municipality, she exhibited at The Coliseum Theatre and the city of Roubaix made a film inspired by her works.

In 1988, during the Italian Days, Dolores realized the official poster and simultaneously she exposed in various places in the city of Strasbourg. The French government ordered a large table on the occasion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, exposed at the Sforza Castle in Milan before being exposed in several European cities.

A major retrospective of her work was organized in 2005 at Villa Mazzotti of Chiari, under the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Italy. In 2006 she was invited to present its exposure Searching for God (Italian: Cercando Dio) at St. Eugeniakyrkan in Stockholm under the high patronage of the Vatican.[7]

In 2014 was produced the movie ″29200 Puthod, l'altra verità della realtà″[8] based on the life of Dolores Puthod, awarded at Ariano Film Festival.[9]

In 2015, in conjunction with Expo Milan 2015, the Royal Villa of Monza offered to Dolores Puthod the internal theatre for the exhibition ″L'anima del segno teatrale″ on the Commedia dell'arte.

In the same year, the town of Lomazzo, where the painter currently lives, has dedicated a museum located on the first floor of the town hall.[10]

Works

Awards

She has received several awards including the Bolshoi Theatre Award in Moscow, the Paul Harris Fellows by Rotary International,[11] the Lorenzo il Magnifico Award.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b "L'incontro con Picasso, i complimenti di madre Teresa e la «realtà trasformata in sogno». Dolores Puthod si racconta". December 16, 2014.
  2. ^ "Catalogo 1978 bicentenario Teatro alla Scala Dolores Puthod #TeatroAllaScala #DoloresPuthod #bicentenarioTeatroAllaScala | Teatro, Catalogo, Scale". Pinterest.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-04. Retrieved 2015-04-04.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ http://www.pcinterreligious.org/uploads/Foundation_NA_brochure-v9_Full_EN.pdf
  5. ^ Rudoni, Dolores Puthod, Franco (March 17, 2005). "Italiano: Dolores Puthod - un biglietto da Madre Teresa - A letter from Mother Theresa of Calcutta" – via Wikimedia Commons.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "»» Archivio Dolores Puthod". doloresputhod.it.
  7. ^ "Home Page". S:ta Eugenia katolska församling.
  8. ^ [http://www.cinemaitaliano.info/29200puthod "29200 Puthod, l'Altra Verit� della Realt� (2014), di Federico Angi - CinemaItaliano.info"]. su CinemaItaliano.info. ((cite web)): replacement character in |title= at position 28 (help)
  9. ^ http://www.arianofilmfestival.com/finalisti/s/5/dettagli/481
  10. ^ "Dolores Puthod Museum - Villa Ceriani". www.comune.lomazzo.co.it.
  11. ^ "Il premio Paul Harris a Dolores Puthod | Artisti famosi". Pinterest.
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