Angelo Brotto
Angelo Brotto (1914-2002) was a Venetian designer and artist, known above all for his work in glass and for his lighting objects.
Biography
Brotto graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 1941. In the late 1940s he produced work in Venice for Peggy Guggenheim's collection.
Honours followed throughout his career, among them awards in Bergamo, Cremona, Suzzara and Verona, and at the inaugural Rome Exhibition of Engravings. He showed at various biennials, and his work has been included in a number of exhibitions.
Models and collaborations
In the 1960s and 1970s Brotto worked with the Murano glassmaker Esperia, and it was in those years that he came into his own as a lighting designer. His lamps departed from Murano's established glassmaking practice while catching the sensibility of the period, and their provocative, artistic modern compositions were praised immediately.