Ivo Pannaggi

Ivo Pannaggi was an Italian painter and architect who was active in the Futurist movement and later associated with the Bauhaus.

Biography

Pannaggi was born in Macerata in 1901. He studied architecture in Rome and Florence. Pannaggi lived in Berlin between 1927 and 1929. He moved to Norway in 1939 and returned to Italy in 1971.

Pannaggi joined the Futurist movement in 1918, but left soon after because of disagreements with Fillippo Marinetti. In 1922, he and Vinicio Paladini published their “Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art." The manifesto emphasized the importance of machine aesthetics, which became one of the dominant strands of Futurism in the 1920s. He and Paladini also staged the Mechanical Futurist Ballet at Anton Giulio Bragaglia's Casa d'Arte.
Around the same time he painted Speeding Train, perhaps his most famous work.
He also created many photomontage works. In Postal Collages'', Pannaggi created a series of unfinished photomontages that would be completed through the inevitable addition of stamps and seals by postal workers—an early instance of mail art.

In 1927, Pannaggi traveled to Berlin, where he would live until 1929. He became friends with Kurt Schwitters and Walter Benjamin and published photomontage works in German newspapers.
Between 1932 and 1933, Pannaggi attended the Bauhaus, the only Futurist other than Nicolaj Diugheroff to do so.