11 Facts About Serge Brignoni

Serge Brignoni was a Swiss avant-garde painter and sculptor.

Serge Brignoni chose not to attend the art academy of Milano as he deemed it too conservative.

Serge Brignoni then continued his studies at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.

Serge Brignoni began collecting these artworks in 1926 and expanded the scope of his collecting to Melanesian and Indonesian art; he supported himself in part through sales of these works.

Serge Brignoni joined Gruppe 33, an anti-Fascist association of artists based in Basel, and was represented in the 1935 and 1936 Surrealist exhibits in Copenhagen.

Serge Brignoni married Chilean painter Graciela Aranis in 1935.

Serge Brignoni resumed his collecting after the war, eventually donating the collection to the city of Lugano in several phases beginning in 1985.

Serge Brignoni continued to work in a variety of media including sculpture, lithography, collage and painting; he taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich.

Serge Brignoni painted several murals, including one at the Government Headquarters in Bellinzona and another in the television headquarters in Comano.

Serge Brignoni's works were widely exhibited, including a 1997 retrospective show at the Kunstmuseum Bern.

Serge Brignoni died in that city in 2002, survived by his second wife Marlyse Haller.