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The
Norwegian painter-sculptor Heindrik Christian Andersen,
who became an American citizen but resided in Rome
since 1897, designed and built his own house-studio
in the form of a "house with an adjoining studio"
between 1922 and 1925 near the Porta del Popolo,
in the area which was then undergoing expansion between
the initial stretch of Via Flaminia and the embankment
of the Tiber.
The building,
which features Neo-Renaissance forms and external faces
rich in symbolic decorative elements of the sentimental
universe of the artist (such as the big fascia painted
with allegorical subjects on the top floor executed
in 1935) or the series of portrait-heads of the artist's
relatives that overlook Via Mancini and Via
Pisanelli, certainly represents an interesting example
of architecture and decoration in the
artistic Roman panorama of the time; nevertheless,
following restoration work promoted by the Special Office
for Contemporary Art (SACS) and its opening to
the public in 1999, it especially emerges as an exceptional
testimonial of an artist's atelier-home since it has
remained substantially intact.
Since
it is close to Valle Giulia, it has been included
within the boundary of the Parco dei Musei as
a satellite-museum (together with the Museo
Praz, the Museo Boncompagni-Ludovisi and
the Museum Manz of Ardea) of the National
Gallery of Modern Art.
Within
this fascinating original setting of the completely
restored environment it is possible to visit the artist's
Studio, a veritable jewel, which saw the realisation
of Andersen's impressive sculptures dedicated
to the phases of love, maternity, fine physique, of
intellect against brute force, all these works were
ideally intended for that ''World City" outlined
by the artist in the great design exhibited along the
walls of the so-called "Gallery".
This
exhibition room is also located on the ground floor
where Andersen used to show visitors his finished products.
The utopian
idea of a great "World City", an international
centre for a creative laboratory extending from the
arts to the sciences and to philosophical and religious
thought, which was richly illustrated in the book "Creation
of a World Centre of Communication" produced with
French architect Ernest Hebrardin 1913, illustrated
an entire artistic research on Andersen which
was translated into over 200 sculptures (plaster
and bronze, of which aboutforty are from the
Studio), in over 200 paintings and in more than
300 graphical works currently distributed between
the ground floorlocation of the two ateliers - and
the first floor, once the home of the artist and now
used to display the permanent collections of smaller
dimensions and to organise temporary exhibitions mostly
focusing on the relationship between Italy and
the European and American artists of the
XIX and XX centuries.
The opening
to the public of his house-atelier was what Andersen
himself intended and left the building to the Italian
State when he died in 1940.
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