5/21/2023 0 Comments Frederick lionniHe was art director of Fortune magazine between 1949-62, professor of design at Cooper Union College, New York, and designed the American pavilion for the Brussels World Fair in 1958. From 1922-24, he was with his family in Brussels, spent a year in America, and finally moved to Italy, where he attended high school, started work as a commercial artist and simultaneously studied for a degree in economics at the University of Genoa.Īt the outbreak of the second world war, he emigrated to America, where he worked in advertising, commissioning artists such as de Kooning, Calder, Moore and Ben Shahn to do posters and advertisements. His father was a diamond-cutter and his mother a singer of his uncles, one was an architect, and two collected modern art. He was also a painter and an outstanding sculptor, and his work was exhibited in museums in New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Cologne, Rome and at the Venice Biennale. Many of Lionni's books became classics in Europe, America and Japan, even though his popularity in Britain was never as great.
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