The collection of the workers

The sculptures here exposed – all of them small in size and made of bronze, chalk or waxed chalk – are representations of jobs represented by young strong and brawny men, focused on their activities as manual labourers in the typical ways portrayed by the art of the Fascist era.

Giuseppe Albano creates this collection in 1933, as preparatory sketches to enter the competition for the planning of the statues to be placed on the two main entrances of the Palazzo degli Uffici Finanziari in Bari. In 1934 he only produces in bronze the sculptures of the Grape harvester and of the Docker (sketch not exposed).

The bronze sketches here exposed were made in 1968 by the Comune di Putignano (Municipality of Putignano).

 

  1. a Helmsman (Pilot) 1933

              Bronze

              Cm 22x64x21

 

  1. b Timoniere (Pilota) 1933 Helmsman (Pilot) 1933

              Waxed chalk

              Cm 22x64x21

 

  1. a  Fruit seller 1933

              Bronze

             Cm 23x65x20

 

  1. b  Fruit seller 1933

              Chalk

             Cm 23x65x20

 

  1. a  Harvester 1933

             Bronze

             Cm 24x64x23

 

  1. b  Harvester 1933

            Chalk

           Cm 24x64x23

 

  1. a  Carpenter 1933

              Bronze

             Cm 20x64x21,5

 

  1. b  Carpenter 1933

              Waxed chalk

               Cm 20x64x21,5

 

  1.  Fisherman 1933

            Bronze

            Cm 20x64x23

 

  1. b Pescatore 1933 

             Waxed chalk

             Cm 20x64x23