GX1993.62

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 165; Larghezza: 38

ferro battuto

A pupil of Alessandro Mazzucotelli, Carlo Rizzarda, having achieved international success in 1926, purchased an old palace in his native Feltre, furnishing it with his art collection and wrought irons. After his death, this building became the home of the Rizzarda Museum, in whose collection several works by the artist appear, dated between 1923 and 1926 and characterised by the decorative motif of birds, also used by his master Mazzucotelli. Alongside this theme, the Fountain with Little Birds in the Wolfsoniana also presents that of the “frozen fountain”, elaborated in the years of the spread of the Art Deco taste in many linguistic and expressive variants and here resolved by Rizzarda through the creation of frosty metal gushes. Wrought iron fountain with numerous gushing water jets and a pair of birds on the edge of the basin.