CALLING ON DIEGO COLLECTORS!
Each of YOU have an opportunity to participate in the publishing of Your Diego artworks. A new book “Artist of a Thousand Faces” is in the planning stages by Stephen Max to celebrate Diego’s 100th Birth Year on August 10th.
Please EMAIL diegovociproject@gmail.com us your unique Diego “faces” works of art and any stories or quips you have, to be considered for this publication (no later than May 15th 2020).
Above are examples of unique “faces” by Diego!
Words above by Cindy and Norm Ferland
Cindy and Norm Ferland share with the Diego Voci Project Team two of their three works by internationally collected artist Antonio Diego Voci (VOH-chee) 1920-1985.
“We talked about where he (Diego) gets his ideas for paintings. He (Diego) told me that he sees a person and maybe weeks or a month later he will paint that person in his interpretation. Also we talked about the still life he painted because I had one of those and he (Diego) said he had seen a pot of flowers and he just thought he would try to paint it.” – Norm Ferland
Diego Voci, Artist of a Thousand Faces:
Margaret Carrow shares memories of her Aunt’s memories of how she collected her two internationally collected artist Diego Voci (VOH-chee 1920-1985) paintings.
Margaret shares;
My Aunt lived most of her life in Europe working for the Air Force as an administrator of the Air Force schools, in Germany, France and Spain. She is 93 (in 2012) years old and I have moved her back to the states,along with her personal possessions including two of her paintings.She talked about the artist she knew while she was in Germany. The two oil paintings by Diego are signed on the front and the back. I have taken pictures of them and have included them with this letter. One of the paintings needs some repairs, and I didn’t know how I should have this done. My Aunt is living in a retirement home, and wanted her paintings to be with her. She told me that Diego was working on a painting for President Kennedy when she first met Diego.”
To see more: https://youtu.be/GG5Jl-2FuXM
One of the artists, Christa Volkert-Vogel in Germany who met Diego several times on Diego’s travels to the #Schwarzwald (Black Forest) area, in this case #Offenburg. She not only loved Diego’s master artistry, Christa says “he greatly affected my art.” Christa purchased 5 DIEGO artworks, “La Lettura per il Teatro” (Reading for the Theatre), which she acquired on October 26, 1980, is shown here:
#DIEGO VOCI “La Lettura per il Teatro” (80x70cm, Oil on Canvas, 9802-100)
Christa remembers, “In my youth I had courses at the “Painters Vocational School” in Lahr, with several regional artists including Diego Voci, an internationally known artist and compelling contemporary painter. Thus a sound foundation was created that would help me in my future endeavors. After many years of making it my hobby, I studied art in 1998 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lahr. Years later I also taught there.”
(“In meiner Jugendzeit hatte ich an der Malerfachschule in Lahr, bei mehreren regionalen Malern sowie bei Diego Voci, einem überregional bekannten Künstler und überzeugenden Maler der Gegenwart, Kurse belegt. So wurde eine fundierte Grundlage geschaffen, die mir später zu einem Kunststudium verhelfen würde.”)
Christa also recalls one day that Diego was drawing several flower-themed artworks and says her own renderings were highly influenced from that one day forward!
DIEGO VOCI “Flowers” Tempera on Paper (Left) owned by Christa and her own #Flowers
Enjoy more of Antonio DIEGO Voci (1920-1985) masterpieces in the first DIEGO VOCI PROJECT deluxe coffee-table book: “The Beauty of Diego“
View here for Free: www.blurb.com/books/5419805-the-beauty-of-diego
GOOGLE “Diego Voci”. CLICK “Images” See just a part of #DIEGO’s world of art!
Diego Voci: “Fiori” oval oil on canvas #361-475
This is an old faded polaroid image of the original painting “Fiori” by Diego Voci. This painting was purchased by Major Willett at the Terrance Club, #Frankfurt am Main 1976.
Any information or whereabouts of this painting or the owner please contact us at the diegovociproject@gmail.com
See other examples of Still Life #Flowers by Diego Voci: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/still-life-diegovocitm/
Take a Virtual Museum Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5Jl-2FuXM&t=200s
Diego Voci; Blumenstrauss, #361-470 oval
This old image of “Blumenstrauss” by Diego Voci. See more flowers on our Still Life Board on #Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/still-life-diegovocitm/
Mrs. Galloway purchased “Blumenstrauss” in 1976 at Patrick Henry Village in #Heidelberg. Where is this painting now?
Contact the Diego Viego Project at diegovociproject@gmail.com.
Be inspired by the variety of still life paintings by Diego; click here https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/still-life-diegovocitm/
Diego Voci “Artist of a Thousand Faces”. Our all volunteer group (The Diego Voci Project Team) purpose is to increase the awareness and value of the great body of artwork created by internationally collected artist DIEGO VOCI (VOH-chee); and to archive his works with the Diego Voci Estate owned by his widow Helga Voci.
Search Diego Voci Project on #Google, #Bing, #Yahoo, etc – select IMAGES – you’ll see . . .
Diego Voci; Flowers, 30x40cm oil on canvas #251-219
Purchased in Stuttgart, Germany in 1975, by LTC. Fraley. Any information on this painting or the whereabouts of LTC. Fraley, please contact The Diego Voci Project Team (all volunteer group) at diegovociproject@gmail.com.
Diego Voci, an Artist of Thousand Faces!
Diego Voci; 80 x 60cm, oil on canvas (polaroid image of original painting)
Antonio Diego Voci, master figurative painter (1920-1985) once claimed he only paints from memory. Too bad he’s not here to share more about this provocative memory he captured here, titled:
“En Regardant La Mer” (Looking at the Sea)
Joseph Marasco, where are you now? And do you still have this painting? Contact us at diegovociproject@gmail.com.
Joseph Marasco paid Diego in his Wiesbaden studio $890 to take this marvelous (80 x 60cm) painting home on 28 September 1980. Joseph address then (in 1980) was:
61 Westfalen Apt.5 62 Weisbaden – Aukamm
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