Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
An accomplished architect, exhibition designer, furniture maker and magazine editor, Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig helped direct Italy’s rationalist architectural movement until his death near the end of World War II. Wounded twice and captured twice in World War I, Pogatschnig left military service to work as the editor and director of Casabella architecture magazine and went on to design the V Milan Triennale and VI Milan Triennale alongside fellow Italian architect Gio Ponti.
Originally born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now modern-day Croatia, Pogatschnig studied Italian in Trieste before joining the Italian army to serve in the First World War. After that harrowing and traumatic experience, he became a founding member of the first Fascist Party in Parenzo. In 1924, he graduated from Turin Polytechnic with an architecture degree and began designing bridges, pavilions and buildings, including the Gualino office complex, in Turin. Nearing 1928, Pogatschnig began work on pavilions for the Turin International Exhibition.
Pogatschnig’s involvement in the V and VI Milan Triennales stand today as some of his greatest contributions to Italian architecture. He held full control over the design of the latter exhibition, in 1936, which led to the opportunity to design many of the interiors of the Italian Pavilion at the Paris Expo the following year.
Pogatschnig’s reputation as an architect and designer were overshadowed only by his outspoken nature as an editor. By 1942, he openly criticized the Italian regime and left the Fascist Party to join the resistance a year later. These activities led to his capture, imprisonment and escape from Brescia in 1944. Ultimately, Pogatschnig was recaptured, tortured and transferred across prisons to Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died on April 22, 1945, less than a month before the end of fighting in Europe.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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1940s Japanese Showa Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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Early 20th Century Chinese Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Asian Art and Furniture
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