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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Gr.8° - 172 pp. Richly illustrated with colour and b/w reproductions. In italian, as new. Alfredo Bortoluzzi ( Karlsruhe , 21 December 1905 Peschici , 20 December 1995 ) was a German painter , dancer and choreographer . He was born in Karlsruhe , Germany , on 21 December 1905, to the Venetian mosaicist Eugenio and Elvira Baldelli, a native stylist from Pergola . He spent his early childhood in Venice then, together with his parents, he moved to Germany, again to Karlsruhe, where he completed his basic education: German, in fact, was his mother tongue, despite the strong bond with the cultural tradition of his parents' country of origin . He first attended the art school in Karlsruhe, the Badischen Kunsthochschule and the Radierschule , where his teacher, among others, was Walter Conz . From 1927 to 1929, he studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau , attending the courses of Josef Albers , Oskar Schlemmer , Vasilij Kandinskij and Paul Klee . With the latter, in particular, he formed an intense friendship: it was Klee who first generated in Bortoluzzi the concept of painting as a "game with the ultimate things". In those years he also attended the classical dance school of Eugenia Eduardova in Berlin . Meanwhile, his father had died and Bortoluzzi, to pay for his studies, was forced to go to work in Berlin, at the Tomson Agency, sharing the studio with Ed Fisher and his wife Grit Kallin , also students of the Bauhaus and with whom, from then on, he was linked by a great friendship. Bortoluzzi exhibited for the first time in 1930, in Berlin, in a group exhibition of Bauhaus artists organized by Ernest Kallai at the Moeller Gallery. The following year he exhibited, again in Berlin, at the Flechteim Gallery, together with his masters. A traumatic episode in 1933 forced him to temporarily give up painting. His works, in fact, were exhibited among those of other friends in Düsseldorf , in the Bauhaus Artists' Exhibition which was closed and seized by the Nazis who defined the Bauhaus art as "degenerate art". From figurative art to ballet From that moment on, the activity of those artists was placed under strict surveillance by Hitler's regime. Forced into inactivity by state censorship, many exponents of the Bauhaus left Germany in 1936. Bortoluzzi moved to Paris , where he studied classical ballet at the Ecole de danse directed by Ljubov' Nikolaevna Egorova and tried to put to good use the teachings in theatre received at the Bauhaus, both in scenography and choreography. In 1937 he won the first prize for character and the second for classical dance at the Concours de danse théatrale in Paris. Serge Lifar , who was part of the jury, hired him as a soloist for his Russian ballet. In the same year, the critic Egon Vietta organized another collective exhibition of Bauhaus artists, in Milan, in the Il Milione gallery : here too Bortoluzzi's works were present. Beginning in 1938, he toured many European theaters alongside greats, including Herbert von Karajan . He also collaborated with the musician Carl Orff , the composer of Carmina Burana . Both critics and audiences appreciated Bortoluzzi's talent and creativity. Between 1940 and 1943, he was a dancer and choreographer at the Breslan Municipal Theater. After September 8, 1943, because of his Italian surname, he was held prisoner near Auschwitz . During the day he was forced to dig trenches and in the evening he had to dance for the German soldiers. He managed to escape, together with his friend, the tenor and philosopher Fritz Lang. The post-war period and the return to painting After the war, Bortoluzzi began working as a choreographer and set designer at the Badesches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.