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The government of the Canton Ticino purchased several works. His last studio was located beneath the big staircase of the Italian Consulate in Lugano and in this large studio Mario created fountains, Madonnas in all sizes, saints, children, figurines in all postures, and numerous monuments for cemeteries. His was without a doubt a rising career. Slow, but constant and productive until his last day when he was taken to a local hospital in Lugano. The 19th of March in 1963, at the age of 64 he died. His works of art remain and can be admired in many European cities. Many of the works can be seen in the Museum in Pazzallo.

May this museum, dedicated to the artists Mario and wife Irma, from their daughter Claudia and her husband Claudio, be witness of their artistic talents and dedication to the arts.

Art works in Switzerland and abroad:

Madonna "Virgo Potens"	Cathedral San Lorenzo, Lugano
Nicolao della Flue	Fountain, Neggio
Torso con testa	Native home Pazzallo
Torso	Town Hall, Pazzallo
Il Seminatore	At the Agricultural school, Mezzana
Il Seminatore	Museo Villa Ciani anniversario Fiera Svizzera di Lugano
Il Seminatore	Museo Villa Ciani anniversario Fiera Svizzera di Lugano
La Georgiana	Town Hall, Giubiasco
Il Tobiolo	Fountain, Massagno
Il Pastorello	Fountain, Bevers, Engadine
Le Marmotte	Fountain, Engadine
Sant'Antonio	Godesberg, Germany
Demeter	Relief Casa Franchini, Lugano
Il Mercato	Relief Casa Pedrinis, Lugano
L'Acquaiola	The water carrrier with the sculptor's great grandchildren
L'Acquaiola	Fountain along the lake in Paradiso
L'Acquaiola	Fountain along the lake in Paradiso
Il Genio del lavoro	Krefeld, Germany
Il Lavoratore	Town Hall, Cureglia
Il Mascherone	Fountain, Pazzallo
Narciso	Cortile Museo Pazzallo
Il Risveglio	Parco Belvedere lungolago Lugano
IIl Risveglio	Close up view
Il Comacino	Project
Prayer	Cemetery San Pietro  Pambio
Cristo	Statue grave family Rickenbach, Schwyz
Cristo 2	Grave family  Rickenbach, Schwyz
L'Adolescente	President Etter observes the Adolescent
Adolescente,  Ly Bryks	Dr. Ermanni, Sorengo
Asceta	Museum Mario Bernasconi

 

 

Famous portraits by Mario:

 

• Professor Angelo Pizzorno
• Painter Gualtiero Colombo
• Naturalist Silvio Calloni
• Writer Francesco Chiesa
• Painter Filippo Boldini
• Poet Ulisse Pocobelli
• Writer Carl Zuckmayer
• Portrait of young lady, 1930 
• Pianist Claudio Arrau
• Writer Niklaus Bolt 
• Professor Gogarten
• Marquess Stirum
• Lady with hat, Irma
• Actress Maria Denis
• Actress Elisabeth Lennartz
• Banker Gutmann and wife Daisy
• Banker Gutmann children
• Portrait Gutmann daughter
• Leonhard Von Beckerath
• Ingola Von Alvensleben
• Max Huber
• My Mother
• Irma, mia moglie
• Cornelia
• Claudia
• Mario alla Landi, Esposizione Nazionale Svizzera 1939

 

Paintings and drawings  by Mario

 

• Claudia at sixteen, drawing 1953

• Gina by the stove, oil 1922

• Yellow vase, pastel 1925

• Gina, oil 1922

• La scema, watercolor 1920

• Woman under the tree, oil 1925

• My mother  La Santa, pencil drawing 1923 

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Mario seen by other artists

 

• Mario 1928, drawing by Carl Zuckmayer

• Mario 1914, portrait by the sculptor Giuseppe Foglia

• Mario adolescent 1918, by the sculptor Luigi Vassalli

• Mario 1925, oil painting by Giuseppe Foglia 

• Mario 1961, oil painting by New York artist Richard Colin

 

 

Founders of the"Porza" cultural association

History of the Porza association

Giuseppe Curonici introduction to the volume Mario Bernasconi Salvioni Editore

 Des l'idee a la forme, exposition Porza, Musee Galliera 1939

Visit the birthplace and home of the artist 

Sala Capriasca where Mario and Irma lived from  1929 al 1933

 To view the art works of Mario Bernasconi  on you tube

 

Visit the Adhikara Gallery by  Vincenzo Altepost

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 1996, Claudia Esposito Bernasconi