ARTIST

Fortunato Depero

1892–1960 · Kingdom of Italy

Futurist who designed the famous 'bolted book' and magazine covers for Vogue and The New Yorker.

ABOUT

Fortunato Depero (30 March 1892 – 29 November 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor, and graphic designer. == Biography == Depero was born in Fondo or (according to other sources) in the neighboring village of Malosco – in the modern Italian region of Trentino, at that time the County of Tyrol in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He grew up in Rovereto and it was here he first began exhibiting his works, while serving as an apprentice to a marble worker. It wa…

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NOTABLE WORKS
Automaton with a Pipe Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
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