BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON MIRANDO HAZ

Mirando Haz (the pseudonym of Amedeo Pieragostini) was born in Bergamo into an old Marchigian-Roman family. After completing classical and legal studies, he became the pupil of the painter Alberto Vitali and edited the first monograph about his etching work (1973).
He is an academic artist of the Italian Etchers and has made about 1500 etchings, which were the subject of a degree thesis by Elena Agosti, l’Università degli Studi di Milano (supervisor: Professoressa Elena Bairati, 1993).
In 1989 his name was put forward by Giulio Carlo Argan for the Premio Feltrinelli for graphic arts of the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1992 he participated in the exhibition “Masterpieces of Etching” (from Bonnard to Baselitz) at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet des estampes, Paris.
He has published many portfolios for the Vanni Scheiwiller editions (Andersen, Dickens, Strindberg and Pierrot). Famous exponents of artistic and literature have written about Haz, from Giulio Carlo Argan to Carlo Bertelli to Gillo Dorfles; from Cesare Segre to Franco Fornari to Jean Louis Barrault. His works are part of important international collections from the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale to the Bertarelli collection of Castello Sforzesco in Milan to the Calcografia Nazionale in Rome.
Mirando Haz is mentioned in the “Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays” by E. Benezit, published in Paris in 1999 by Grund. Twenty-five lines are dedicated to Haz in the sixth volume. The general catalogue of Mirando Haz is now being printed by edizioni Nuages of Milan, with an introduction by Carlo Bertelli.


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