Contemporary Italian artist
Ruperto Banterle (born 19 September 1889 in Milan, died 20 July 1968 in Gombion) was an Italian sculptor.
He showed artistic talent from a young age and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Genoa, while working in the studio of the sculptor Giovanni Scanzi. In 1911 he moved to Paris, where he became acquainted with the works of Auguste Rodin, Moderdo Rousseau, Camille Claudel and Antoine Bourdelle.
For political reasons he returned to Verona, where he opened a studio and created several funerary monuments, including a monument to the mother of his friend Lionello Fiumi, "L'Anelito Fuggente". At the beginning of World War I, he was called up to fight in the Karst region and Albania.
In the 1930s, he worked on important public commissions for the city of Verona, creating the sculptural groups of the Casa del Mutilato designed by his brother, the architect Francesco Banterle, and the Garibaldi Bridge, which were destroyed during World War II.
After the war, he returned to Milan, where he continued his work, while working in Verona on portraits and religious and funerary works. In 1955, he created the statue of Sim贸n Bol铆var for the Orinoco Ironworks in Venezuela.
Ruperto Banterle died on 20 July 1968 at his home in Gombione, a hamlet in Belfiore Dadije, in the province of Verona.
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