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Directory: Fine Art: Sculpture: Bronze: Pre 1930: Item # 1455614

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Bronze Nude circa 1920 measuring 13.5” height 7x6” base. Alfredo Pina (1883-1969) a student of Auguste Rodin, was an artist and sculptor of Italian origin. He created portrait busts of Beethoven and Wagner and others. His famous bust of Victor Hugo is located in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He was born in 1883 in Milan. The second largest city in Italy was also the workplace of the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci. He studied in Milan at the Accademia di Brera. …. The life of Alexander Alfredo Pina The Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and is located with other cultural institutions in the Palazzo Brera. Besides Pina many well- known personalities completed in the arts and cultural scene at the Academy, including the designer and architect Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) and the Franco-Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928 ). After he won the national Grand Prize for sculpture di Brera, he opened his own studio in the French capital. Between 1909 and 1910 he studied with Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) in the city on the Seine. Like other artists of his time, he was impressed by Rodin and his art that could ever represent a bridge between yesterday and tomorrow and set innovative standards in the field of sculpture and sculpture.