Italian sculptor (1918-1981)

Born in 1918 in Milan, the Italian sculptor Costanzo Mongini was in his earliest youth when he drew his artistic steps confidently at the art academies. To him, they seemed to be only sites of the exaggerated self-expression. Mongini wanted to preserve its own approach to the art and went his way as a self-taught artist.

Mongini covers without groping experimentation what corresponded to his nature: The study of the great art of the past and make the exact nature observation based with a symbolic value charged, volcanic explosive moment. "What is today called avant-garde, I am not interested", confessed the sculptor. The success proved him right, his triumphant bronze Church portal in Portofino has become a Mecca for art lovers from all over the world. Mongini realizes his sculptures, of which stands the portrait of Cardinal Ottaviani in the private collection of the Vatican, not as static but as eccentric and intensely provocative. Mongini came through exhibitions of Beirut to Munich to world fame, he is well known and popular especially among collectors in Italy, Germany, England, Australia, the USA and Japan. The artist verse trot in 1981.