Fortunato Depero Italian, 30/03/1892-29/11/1960

Fortunato Depero painter, architect, designer, poet. After attending the Scuola Reale Elisabettiana in Rovereto, around 1913 he approaches Italian Futurist Movement. Since 1914 he lives in Rome where, after meeting Balla, Cangiullo, Marinetti and the art dealer Sprovieri, he becomes part of the Futurist Movement. In the early 1915 he undertakes the construction of the "complessi plastici", and in March he signs with Balla the important Manifesto of the Futuristic Reconstruction of the Universe.