Magnanini, Iro
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Title
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Magnanini, Iro
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Family name
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Magnanini
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Given name(s)
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Iro
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Alternate name(s) / title(s)
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Renzo
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Gender
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Male
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Full biographical data
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Iro Magnanini, known as Renzo Magnanini (Bodeno di Gonzaga, 18/10/1920 – Bentivoglio, 12/08/2006).
He was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Moved to Venice to study at an Academy of the Arts where he met Ardengo Soffici, Arturo Tosi, and Carlo Scarpa.
He was unable to complete his education because he was drafted into military service and sent to fight in World War II.
In May 1940, he fought in East Africa at Amba Alagi alongside the Duke of Aosta.
Captured by the British forces, he was sent to South Africa, in the Orange Free State.
Between late 1943 and 1948, he was in Zonderwater prisoner-of-war camp and there he could focus on painting and sculpture, creating works inspired by life in the camp and portraits of local figures and officers, which he signed as “I. Magnanini”. He spent five years in Zonderwater and left some of his works in Galleries in South Africa.
Upon his repatriation to Italy in 1948, Magnanini began to sustain himself solely through the income generated by his artistic endeavors.
He passed away on August 12, 2006, at the hospital in Bentivoglio after a long illness and was buried in the Baricella cemetery.
In 2021, his wife Giuliana, donated the artist’s worktable and easel to the municipality of Baricella.
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Pre-Captivity Occupation
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Artist
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Birth date
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October 18, 1920
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Country of birth
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Italy
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Death date
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December 8, 2006
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Country of death
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Italy
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Cause of death
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long disease
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Bibliographic citation
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https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Magnanini
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Elisa Longarato, Zonderwater Ex-POW Block Association, email, 6 December 2024
Magnanini Iro Renzo_The ceremony of presenting the picture "Descent from the Cross" by Renzo Magnanini to the State Hermitage Museum
Magnanini Iro Renzo_E il pittore ignoto Conquista l’Ermitage
Lieutenant J. Ingber's portrait