Massimiliano Pironti (born 22 December 1981 in Colleferro, Province of Rome) is an Italian painter and former actor, singer and dancer. [1] [2]
Massimiliano Pironti (born 22 December 1981 in Colleferro, Province of Rome) is an Italian painter and former actor, singer and dancer. [1] [2]
As an autodidact he learned to paint, after he began studies in singing, classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance and earned a reputation initially in Italy and later in Germany as a musical performer. Since 2018 he is a painter of international reputation, especially in Great Britain, Germany and Italy. His focus is to represent the inner life of the human figure and to tell the story of peoples lives. [3] [4]
He came to fame as the 11th winner of the Italian National Prize "Massimini" as best musical and light opera performer 2008. [5] [6]
In March 2018, the jury of the BP Portrait Award selected Massimiliano's oil painting A throne in the West among 48 submissions. A throne in the West was part of the BP Portrait Award 2018 special exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, London. [7] In 2019 Pironti won the third prize in the BP Portrait Award, [8] with a portrait entitled Quo vadis? of his 95-year-old grandmother and the second prize in the visitor's choice award from the NPG London. [9] [10] This competition is the world's biggest for portrait painting. [11]
On the occasion of the 250th jubilee of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin Pironti painted his interpretation of Hölderlin for the permanent collection of the Hölderlin Museum in Lauffen a. N. /Germany, in the house of Hölderlin's birth. [12] A copy of the painting was presented to Pope Francis, who gratefully honored the painting and museum with greetings and reflections about the poet. [13]
In 2021 Massimiliano was commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales to paint the portrait of Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh, as part of the project-exhibition “Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust”. The portrait, part of the Royal Collection, is on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace and at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh. Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales, now HM King Charles III and Duchess Camilla, now Queen Camilla, unveiled the display at the Queen's Gallery, today King's Gallery, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022. [14]
Massimiliano created and donated a symbol of peace to the international project of peace and reconciliation "Peacebells for Europe", which was in 2023 shown in a cinema documentary.
His painting "Quo vadis?" was bought in 2023 from "The Friends of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart" for the permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Germany and is on display in the Otto Dix hall. [15]
His painting "Agnese" of a dancer with alopecia was part of the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award show in the National Portrait Gallery, London. [16]
2024 the commission for art of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany commissioned the official portrait of University President Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Bernd Engler for Universities official Gallery, one of the oldest and biggest in the world. Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Reinhold Würth, patron of arts, supported generously the commission now on display in the show of the University museum. [17]
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