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Gio Ponti

Italian architect (1891–1979)
Person human Q435810
Gio Ponti
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Facts

34 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[28]
Date of birth
November 18, 1891
Date of death
September 16, 1979
Place of birth
Milan
Place of death
Milan
Country of citizenship
Kingdom of Italy, Italy[11][12]
Occupation
architect, designer, university teacher, scenographer, painter, industrial designer, writer, interior designer[13][14][15]
Employer
Polytechnic University of Milan, School of Architecture, Urbanism and Design of the University of São Paulo[20][21]
Field of work
architecture, design, scenography, painting[16][17][18][19]
Educated at
Polytechnic University of Milan[22]
Award received
Royal Order of Vasa[27]
Notable work
Torre Branca, Pirelli Tower, Villa Ponti Bellavista[24][25][26]
Official website
www.gioponti.org[36]
Work location
Milan, São Paulo[37][38]
Languages spoken, written or signed
Italian[45]
Archives at
ETH Zurich University Archives[31]
Artist files at
Frick Art Research Library
Copyright representative
reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
Copyright status as a creator
works protected by copyrights, works protected by copyrights
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dizionario degli scrittori italiani contemporanei pseudonimi: 1900-1975[42][43]
Family name
Ponti[33]
Given name
Giovanni[34]
Has works in the collection
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nationalmuseum, Museum of Modern Art, Musée de la civilisation, Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Collections of the Ospedale Maggiore
Show all 34 facts +10
Movement
rationalism, Rationalism of Lake Como[29][30]
Name in native language
Gio Ponti
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/Frick Art Reference Library, Bibliotecas da USP GLAM project, NADD Wikidata project
Participant in
Gold + Silber Schmuck + Gerät von Albrecht Dürer bis zur Gegenwart[44]
Participated in conflict
World War I[32]
Partner in business or sport
Piero Portaluppi, Gualtiero Galmanini, Giordano Forti[39][40][41]
Place of burial
monumental cemetery of Milan[10]
Pseudonym
Archias[35]
Student
Gian Carlo Malchiodi[23]
Writing language
Italian
🏷️ Also known as
en Giovanni Ponti en Gio Ponti en Giò Ponti ar جيو بونتي cs Giovanni Ponti de Giovanni Ponti el Τζιό Πόντι es Giò Ponti es Giovanni Ponti fa جو پونتی fi Gio Ponti it Archias it Giò Ponti it Giovanni Ponti ja ジオ・ポンティ nl Gio Ponti nl Giovanni Ponti pl Giò Ponti pt Giò Ponti ru Джио Понти
🔖 Identifiers · 122
ISNI
000000008078372X
VIAF cluster ID
108666789
Library of Congress authority ID
n79003369
GND ID
119292580
ADAGP artist ID
giovanni-ponti-653548
ARTIC artist ID
20802
AbART person ID
121258
ArchINFORM person/group ID
244
Architectuurgids architect ID
834
Archivio della ceramica person ID
P/Ponti Gio, P/Ponti gio
Art UK artist ID
ponti-gio-18911979
Artcyclopedia artist ID
ponti_gio
Show all 122 identifiers +110
Artist-info artist ID
27401
Artists of the World ID
00073385
Artnet artist ID
gio-ponti
Artsy artist ID
gio-ponti
AskArt person ID
11062287
BIBSYS ID
90597097
BeWeb person ID
7234
Berardi Arte artist ID
gio-ponti
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12164872w
Boijmans artist ID
14549
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
ponti-gio-giovanni
CANTIC ID
981058510920206706
CONOR.SI ID
159242083
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf12112499
Christie's creator ID
53565, 39837
Cooper Hewitt person ID
18050709
DACS ID (2022)
008650
DACS ID (former)
920a2b67-db24-e111-9c2b-000c29604b72
DDB person (GND) ID
119292580
De Agostini ID
Pónti,+Giò
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
119292580
Diamond Catalog ID for persons and organisations
44535
DigitaltMuseum ID
011034077145
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
169996
Enciclopedia di Roma person ID
2903
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Gio-Ponti
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
gio-ponti
FAST ID
29791
FID performing arts ID
agent/gnd_119292580
Fondazione Fiera ID
140
Freebase ID
/m/0cjvrx
Frick Art Research Library Artist File ID
991004999639707141, 991007863379707141
Galleria Recta artist ID
ponti-gio
Geni.com profile ID
6000000069652875821
Google Arts & Culture entity ID
m0cjvrx
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
gio-ponti
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0052071
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Giò_Ponti
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3158199
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
ponti-dzho-25baa6
Grove Art Online ID
T068649
Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
49423
ICCD agent ID
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Iconoteca dell'Accademia di architettura ID
3142
IdRef ID
030179580
Invaluable.com person ID
s0rz7dpzg0
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID
119292580
Krugosvet article (archived)
kultura_i_obrazovanie/izobrazitelnoe_iskusstvo/PONTI_DZHO.html
KulturNav-ID
0bafe891-a1b1-4770-9946-11aff0efc71b
Lex ID
Giò_Ponti
Libraries Australia ID
35346129
Libris-URI
rp36d3m92cmrt23
LombardiaBeniCulturali architecture author ID
583 (583–34k, n=4)
LombardiaBeniCulturali artwork author ID
21k (21k–42k, n=5)
Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID
04950/eu_p_2679/p2679
MART catalog person ID
17746
Met Constituent ID
162266
Minneapolis Institute of Art constituent ID
1915
Museo Galileo authority ID
180815
Museum of Modern Art artist ID
4688
Museum-digital ID
34634
NDL Authority ID
00453096
NE.se ID
gio-ponti
NL CR AUT ID
xx0223763
NLA Trove people ID
920092
NLP ID
a0000003245004
NUKAT ID
n2012061596
National Library of Brazil ID
001635982
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007507970705171
National Library of Korea ID
KAC2018N9436
National Library of Lithuania ID
LNB:Buqn;=Cg
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810642357305606
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
069498385
Nationalmuseum Sweden ID
22355
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art person ID
13102
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3960363
Open Library ID
OL140741A
OpenMLOL author ID
214983
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100336701
PSS-archi architect ID
12270
Pacific Coast Architecture Database person ID
613
Parsifal cluster ID
781869
Philadelphia Museum of Art entity ID
20284
Prabook ID
1041486
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
42211
RERO ID (legacy)
A026144736
RKDartists ID
64219
Rijksmuseum Research Library authority ID
91541
SBN author ID
CFIV019297
SEARCH on line catalogue ID
47030
SELIBR ID
372909
SHARE Catalogue author ID
445715
SIUSA archive producer person ID
20138
SNAC ARK ID
w6zw3872
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ID
10298-gio-ponti
Structurae person ID
1000176
Svenska Institutet i Rom ID
82417
Tabakalera ID
141203
Topic's main category
Category:Gio Ponti
Treccani ID
giovanni-ponti
Treccani's Biographical Dictionary of Italian People ID
giovanni-ponti
Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
giovanni-ponti
Union List of Artist Names ID
500003868
Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche ID
312415
University of Barcelona authority ID
981058510920206706
V&A person ID
A857
Vatican Library ID (former scheme)
ADV12370069
Vatican Library VcBA ID
495/242864
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
gio-ponti
Yale LUX ID
person/27fc3c94-9bdc-421a-a415-a3677b0576a9

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🔗 Connections
Has works in the collection 9
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Nationalmuseum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design +1 more
Occupation 8
writer, architect, painter, designer, scenographer, university teacher, interior designer, industrial designer
Field of work 4
architecture, painting, design, scenography
← Architect 4
Pirelli Tower, Denver Art Museum, Torre Branca, Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio
Country of citizenship 2
Italy, Kingdom of Italy
Employees / affiliates 2
Richard Sapper, Piero Portaluppi
Employer 2
Polytechnic University of Milan, School of Architecture, Urbanism and Design of the University of São Paulo
Notable work 2
Pirelli Tower, Torre Branca
Partner in business or sport 2
Gualtiero Galmanini, Piero Portaluppi
Students 2
Gualtiero Galmanini, Gian Carlo Malchiodi
Work location 2
São Paulo, Milan
← Partner in business or sport 2
Gualtiero Galmanini, Piero Portaluppi
← Performer 2
rationalism, Category:Rationalist architecture
Award received 1
Royal Order of Vasa
Educated at 1
Polytechnic University of Milan
Founded entities 1
Domus
Given name 1
Giovanni
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Italian
Movement 1
rationalism
Participated in conflict 1
World War I
Place of birth 1
Milan
Place of burial 1
monumental cemetery of Milan
Place of death 1
Milan
Sex or gender 1
male
Student 1
Gian Carlo Malchiodi
Writing language 1
Italian
← Creator 1
Palazzo Mezzanotte
← Curator 1
Milan Triennial V
← Inspired by 1
Compasso d'Oro
← Partnership with 1
Piero Fornasetti
← Significant person 1
1950s
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Summary

Gio Ponti was born on November 18, 1891[1], in Milan[2]. He died on September 16, 1979[3], in Milan[4]. He worked as an architect[5], designer[6], university teacher[7], scenographer[8], and painter[9].

FAQs

Where was Gio Ponti born?

Gio Ponti's place of birth was Milan[2].

Where did Gio Ponti die?

Gio Ponti died in Milan[4].

What did Gio Ponti do for work?

Gio Ponti worked as an architect[5], designer[6], university teacher[7], scenographer[8], and painter[9].

Where did Gio Ponti go to school?

Gio Ponti was educated at Polytechnic University of Milan[22].

What awards did Gio Ponti receive?

Honors received include Royal Order of Vasa[27].

Related Entities

Denver Art Museum design Italy Kingdom of Italy Metropolitan Museum of Art Milan Museum of Modern Art Nationalmuseum São Paulo scenography

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978). Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Nieuwe Instituut Data Platform. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Arkitekter verksamma i Sverige. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [12] ↑ . Museum of Modern Art online collection. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [17] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [18] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [19] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . Arkitekter verksamma i Sverige. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [6] ↑ . The Fine Art Archive. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [8] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [9] ↑ . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [13] ↑ . Nieuwe Instituut Data Platform. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [14] ↑ . Dizionario degli scrittori italiani contemporanei pseudonimi: 1900-1975. wikidata.org.
  18. [15] ↑ . RKDartists. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Os professores de projeto da FAU-USP (1948-2018): esboços para a construção de um centro de memória. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [31] ↑ . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Retrieved . vls.hsa.ethz.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [1] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [3] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [33] ↑ . Arkitekter verksamma i Sverige. wikidata.org.
  30. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [35] ↑ . Dizionario degli scrittori italiani contemporanei pseudonimi: 1900-1975. wikidata.org.
  32. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [43] ↑ . Dizionario degli scrittori italiani contemporanei pseudonimi: 1900-1975. wikidata.org.
  44. [44] ↑ . hedendaagsesieraden.nl. hedendaagsesieraden.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  45. [45] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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