10/04/2009

HERMANN HESSE IN FIESOLE

Fiesole, Antiquarium Costantini room
Hermann Hesse in Fiesole. Poet. Painter. Vagabond
Free entrance for all the Swiss citizens

The community of Fiesole in collaboration with the Foundation of Hermann Hesse Montagnola organized in the Archaeological Civic Museum and in Antiquarium Costantini. The exhibition entitled Hermann Hesse to Fiesole - Poet. Painter. Vagabond with the cure of Luca Scarlini.

Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Nobel prize winner for literature, today is the most read writer in the German language of 20TH the century, translate in more than 60 languages. As a young person, Hesse undertook numerous travels in Italy that lead him for four times to Florence and Fiesole, a locality he described as “a place of peace like an image from dream” and “beloved like little others to the world”. It is there that would have hit hem for the first time “the enchantment of the South”, As he writes in his diary of 1901. His stays were not limited only to the centre of Fiesole, That he habitually reached  by foot from San Domenico, but also wandered for the hills of Settignano and Vincigliata, fascinated by the vegetation, the sight and from the people he meet. These Italian experiences made it that in later years; Hesse nominated his homeland cantone the most meridional of Switzerland, the Ticino, where he passed 43 years of his life. From this lush landscape, the poet was inspired to paint. The colour Expressionist watercolours testify to his love for nature and the rural culture. Particular importance, in fact, possess the aspect of Hermann Hesse painter , twenty originals of his beautiful watercolours accompanied by  drawings in china and pencil in a notebook of sketches particularly precious going back to the 1917 they will be in exhibition of Fiesole.

Moreover, on hand for the visitors is a choice of first editions, manuscripts, letters, poetries written by hand and extracts of works, that it gives a panorama on his literary works. Hermann Hesse thus returns to Fiesole, after more than one hundred years from his encounter with the Tuscan town who in 1901 outlined with enthusiasm: “From the roman ruins to the villa of Böcklin, Fiesole offers numerous fascinating attractions and a heritage of various historical ages. The most beautiful thing is its enchanting position, distributed as is along the sides and on the top of two massive hills overlooking Florence and covered with orchards and country houses. Those of whom escape to hill form comings and going and the crowds of Florence, will find rest and satisfaction to the eyes and the spirit following the green profiles of the hills and of the groups of cypress trees in the gardens.” (Hermann Hesse, Fiesole, 1901).

Hermann Hesse in Fiesole. Poet. Painter. Vagabond
Place: Fiesole, Antiquarium Costantini room

Dates: March 29 – May 31, 2009
Hours: 10a.m.-7P.m., closed on Tuesday
ticket cost of the exhibition: full price 5, 00 Euro, reduced price 3, 00 Euro

Costs of cumulative ticket with museums: full price 12, 00 Euro, reduced price 8, 00 Euro

Free entrance for all the Swiss citizens
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