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Mostra Permanente Aldo Ajň
from 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2007
Mostra Permanente di Ceramiche di Aldo Ajň
Casa Studio-Via della Cattedrale, 20
Gubbio
Tel. (075-927-3958)
Servizio Turistico Associato 075-922-0693 info@iat.gubbio.pg.it
Aldo Ajň was born into a wealthy family in Gubbio on January 28, 1901.
While undertaking humanistic studies, he began to manifest a great interest for the arts and studied at the Institute of Art in Perugia.
He began his artistic career at a young age as a painter and ceramicist, working under the support of Ilario Ciaurro, an artist from Terni who was in Gubbio from 1919-1920 with the “Vasellari Eugubini Mastro Giorgio.”
At the age of 21, he became Artistic Director of the “Societŕ Ceramica Umbra” of the Rubboli Brothers in Gualdo Tadino.
Here he was able to experiment the different techniques of metallic lustre majolica.
In 1926, after his experience in Gualdo Tadino, he started up his artistic activity in Gubbio, concentrating on graphic painting, ceramics and wrought iron works.
In 1927, he opened a workshop with Roberto Frondizi called “Maestri del Ferro”.
At this point he began to participate in important shows and thus obtaining important awards and recognition.
In the early 1930’s, he began to concentrate his work in the area of ceramic art.
His artistic workshop not only produced objects of everyday use, vases and decorative plates but also large decorative panels that can be thought of as a compromise between his vocation as a painter and that of ceramicist.
For several years he taught drawing at the Professional Institute in Gubbio, where he met a certain young student, Ines Spogli, who later became his wife in 1949.
During the Second World War, due to racial reasons (his father was Jewish), his career was momentarily on hold because of his exit from Gubbio. It was during these years that he dedicated himself to other mediums other than those of ceramics (xylography, cloth painting…), upon his return to Gubbio at the end of the war, he returned to his love of ceramics but also restored the stained glass window in the Basilica of St. Ubaldo, which were damaged during the war.
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Ajň also obtained some important commissions, of which, the panels for the ships of “Julius Caesar”, “Andrea Dori!, “Asia” and “Africa”, obtained greater recognition for his works and consolidated his friendship with well known figures such as Gl Dottori, L. Leoncillo, G.C. Argan, G. Ungaretti, G. Ponti, A. Morena, J. Fautrier, A. De Felice, U. Marvardi, E. Tabarrini, and C. Betocchi.
His house soon became the epicentre for meetings open to the best artists and poets of the time.
His hospitality was proverbial and his generosity was such that many friends and young people began their artistic vocation starting from his workshop.
During the sixties and seventies he undertook the work of artistic panels for the Secondary School of the Classics in Gubbio, the Society of Italian Aeronautics (parish church in Passignano).
For the chapel in the Clinic of S. Maria di Esch Sur Alzette and the a nursing home in Bettemburg, Luxemburg.
Professor Ajň continued to work up until a few days before his death at 81 on August 26, 1982.
He was able to finish the commemorative tiles of Gubbio as “Comune d’Europa”.
Unfortunately, some of his works remained unfinished and are still found in his studio, preserved as if the “maestro” had begun them only yesterday.
His works are found throughout private collections, in the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza and the Artistic Industrial Museum in Naples.
From web site “Associazione Eugubini nel Mondo”
