Ernesto Michahelles Thayaht (Florence, 1893 - Marina di Pietrasanta, 1959)
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Xilography, futurist printing taken from the work in 9 volumes "The adorners of the book in Italy".
Very nice specimen with rich shade on paper unknown paper. In excellent condition, except for flowering signs and brown uniform.
Dimensions: 25 x 26 cm
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Ernesto Michahelles (1893-1959) was an Italian artist. Known with the name of Thayaht's art, Ernesto Michahelles, with an initial formative construction substantially by self -taught and a subsequent continuous growth based on his ecclettism, was a sculptor, painter, photographer, designer, architect, inventor and goldsmith. It was therefore an extremely multifaceted and innovator artist, a forerunner of new sensitivity: his work stands out for the synthetic lines and forms, which through a precise geometry express an exquisite elegance.
It was Tommaso Marinetti who enlisted him in Futurism, together with his brother Ruggero Alfredo Michahelles, name of art ram. He operated, immediately acquiring great notoriety, also in the field of fashion following the meeting, which took place in Paris in 1918, with Madeleine Vionnet for which he designed garments with chromatic combinations and innovative geometric combinations for the time. It is the inventor, in 1919-1920, with his brother Ram, of the suit, (in addition to the certain conception of the garment, many of the minting of neologism is also attributed to him).
He was born in Florence and spends his childhood and adolescence in the family villa at Poggio Imperiale, former residence and study of his great -grandfather, the famous American neoclassical sculptor, hiram Powers. Start in Florence the high school studies, which interrupts.
He consolidates his artistic formation by first attending the study of the actor of the Ottaphorist painter Filippo Marfori Savini, and later the school of the American painter and portraitist Julius Rolshoven, located in the Devil Castle. Already in 1915 he began to exhibit the first works under the Pseudonym Cheak, thus deciding to devote himself completely to art, experimenting with all the techniques. Due to a serious liver disease, the artist is forced to stop his research for three years, until 1919, the date on which he moved to Paris urged by Diaghilev and Massine. On this occasion he takes the first contacts for an occasional collaboration with the famous fashion house of Madeleine Vionnet for which in 1919 he designed the logo, and then became the counseling and designer of the atelier, influencing the fashion house in his choices and conditioning French and European fashion until 12 December 1924.
In 1920, returned to Florence, he designed and spread alongside his brother Ram, the suit, universal dressed for everyone and for every occasion, through the newspaper "La Nazione". In this year he also coined his pseudonym, the "Tayat" Palindrome, immediately after changed to "Thayaht". The collaborations with the Florentine Gallery Cavalens and Botti and the attendance of the Galleria-Libreria di Errante Gonnelli, center of avant-garde culture and art in Florence date back to this period.
In 1921, he left for the United States to complete his path of studies, reaching Boston first then Cambridge where he is outlined at the University of Harvard to follow courses on scientific coloring, dynamic symmetry and the numerical absolute held by Prof. Denman Ross.
On his return, the same year, he confirms his collaboration with Madame Vionnet's atelier who offers the artist a contract as a designer to ensure the exclusive of his creations.
In 1922 he participated in the establishment of the "Corporation of the decorative arts" in Florence, in order to encourage the collaboration between artists and artisans, and the following year he participated in the "International Exhibition of Decorative and Modern Industrial Arts" in Monza, with a series of furniture designed by him and exhibited together with the sculptures of Antonio Maraini. In the meantime he buys a house in Versilia, in Marina di Pietrasanta, to which he gives the name of "Gialla Casa".
In the years 1924-25 he participated with his brother Ruggero in the formation of the first corporation of Fine Arts in Florence, for which he creates a lively and modern banner and wins, always together with his brother, the national setting of scenography for the new preparation of the "Aida".
In 1927 he participated in the "III International Exhibition of the Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts" in Monza and the following year he was chosen by the "National Fascist group of straw" as a designer of new models of hats for men and women.
Since 1929 he will publish his drawings on "Fashion", the official magazine of the "National Fascist Fascist Fascist Industry of Clothing" and in the same year, in May, he was presented to Marinetti from Primo Conti, who in turn will present it to Mussolini. On this occasion Thayaht brings him the effigy of the "dux" in a steel iron, thus formalizing the adhesion to futurism. In October of the same year he presented himself to the exhibition "Thirty -three futurists", at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan with three sculptures and fifteen paintings.
The same year he was awarded the "Barcelona International Exhibition" winning the gold medal for the creation of Taiattite.
The following year he participated in the "IV three -year international exhibition of the decorative and industrial arts" in Monza, where it exhibits furnishings and objects in "Taiattite", a silver and aluminum alloy of its invention. In the meantime, he is invited to the "XII International Art Biennial" in Venice, where he exhibits six sculptures in the futurist room. He also participates both in the "International Oraphic Exhibition", where he presents a showcase with taiattite jewels.
In 1931 he was invited to the "The National Art Quadrennial" in Rome, where he exhibited his first aerosculpture, "Air Victory". Also in the same period he organizes the Futurist exhibition painting, sculpture, airport, decorative arts, architecture ", at the art gallery in Florence for the Tuscan Futurist Group, and then participate in the" First Airopyss Exhibition "with the futurist Ballaica, Ballerica, Benedetta, Diulgheroff, Doctors, Filia, Prampolini, Somenzi and Tato organized at the Gallery" The Cameraria " Artists "in Rome. On April 10 of the same year he appears on" Index ", Genoese newspaper, Thayaht's response to an article by Ezra Pound on the futurist sculpture, in which the artist states that there is the possibility of illustrating the solids in motion through a new technique, defined by him" trajective ", which served to represent a three -dimensional object on a plan.
The following year, in 1932, he participated in the exhibition "Enrico Prampolini et Les Aeropeintres Futuristes Italiens" at the Galerie de la Renaissance in Paris. In May of the same year, the sculpture "dive" exposed to the "XVIII Venice Biennale". His first monograph is also published in Florence, "Ernesto Thayaht" which will be presented by Marinetti, Antonio Maraini and Fortunato Bellonzi. Finally, he also develops in 1932 with his brother Ram the "Manifesto for the transformation of men's clothing".
In the following years he will participate in the Biennials of Venice, first in 1934 and then in 1936.
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