Pietro Giuseppe, known as Piero, was born in Bergamo on October 10th 1920, son of Cesare Brolis and Giuseppina Longhi.
In the two-year period 1933-1934 he attended the decoration course at the Andrea Fantoni School of Art in Bergamo. He then enrolled in the sculpture course at theCarrara Academy of Bergamo where he obtained the license in 1939. He was a pupil of the painter Contard Barbieri and of the sculptorGianni Remuzzi, whose studio he also attended for several years.
In the 1941 he was drafted into the Air Force as assistant engineer. On the Mediterranean front he obtained the cross for military valor. In July 1942, during a short license-award, he obtained his artistic maturity diploma in Milan at the Brera art school. In December of the same year, he married Franca Petténi, daughter of Julian (1894 - 1930), poet and writer, with whom he had three children Pierfranco, Gabriella and Silvia. In May of 1943 was taken prisoner in Africa by the Anglo-Americans and transferred to the United States. In the prison camps, however, he was allowed to carry out various types of artistic activities, arousing the interest of the local press.
Repatriated in January of 1946 taught drawing in state schools until 1971. At the same time he devoted himself to sculpture, graphics, painting and medals. He took part in local and national competitions, as well as in local, national and international group exhibitions, obtaining prizes and awards.
From the 1949 to the 1958 collaborated with the sculptor Arrigo Minerbi with whom he created numerous works.
From the 1961 to the 1971 he devoted himself to his major work, the monumental one Way of the cross in bronze, commissioned to him for the Temple of Ognissanti in the Bergamo Cemetery, unique in its kind in terms of size and conception.
In addition to his pre-eminent activity in the public and monumental field, he willingly worked on free subjects for personal pleasure or on subjects linked to the great problems of the contemporary world. He drew intensely giving the most exact and most spontaneously free measure of his creative abilities, often fixing the preparatory studies of the works that he was then gradually creating in marble or bronze with incisive and vibrant strokes.
His works are in Italian and foreign museums, organizations and institutions.
He was a member ofUniversity of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Bergamo, of the Artistic Circle of Bergamo, from the Milanese artistic family, of the Rotary Club of Bergamo, from the Permanent Society of Fine Arts of Milan, ofCatholic Union of Italian Artists (UCAI).
He died at Bergamo for aneurysm on June 14th 1978.

Solo exhibitions[edit | edit wikitext]

He exhibited his artistic production in five personal exhibitions:

• 1963 at the Small UCAI Gallery of Brescia;

• 1971 at the Kusten Gallery of Gothenburg in Sweden;

• 1972 at the San Bartolomeo Cultural Center in Bergamo;

• 1974 at the Ferrari Gallery of Treviglio (Bergamo);

• 1974 at the Galleria della Pigna a Rome.

Then followed the aftermath:

• December 1978-January 1979 at the Cultural Center Il Conventino di Bergamo;

• May 1981 at the Locus Gallery in London;

• August September 1981 at the Blessed P. Berno Cultural Center of Ascona (Swiss);

• May 1987 at the Civic Museum of Pinerolo;

• May 1988 at the Lorenzelli Gallery of Bergamo;

• February March 2003 to the Associazione Artisti Bresciani (Civic Museums of art and history of Brescia);

• October-November 2008 at the San Giuseppe Chapel of close (on the initiative of the municipal administration);

• May 2015-January 2016 at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Donation Meli di Luzzana, by title "Maternity" by Piero Brolis and Alberto Meli.

Major Works[edit | edit wikitext]

• Self-portrait, 1937, Botticino marble, Uffizi Gallery - Vasari Corridor to Florence;

• Giuliano Donati Petteni, 1939, terracotta bust, University of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Bergamo;

• Franca, 1946, wax head, Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti to Florence;

• The Survivors, 1946, artificial stone, all-round, Tadini Academy of Fine Arts to love;

• The Miner, 1946, bronze, in the round, Cave del Predil a Tarvisio (Udine);

• Maternity, 1947, white marble of Carrara, Milan, Civic Art Collections – Kindergarten in Via Palermo formerly Nido Valdani;

• Deposition, 1948, wax, high relief, Procivitate Cristiana of Assisi, Contemporary Art Gallery;

• Compassion, 1948, statuary white marble of Carrara, in the round, Gagliardi Tomb in the Civic Cemetery of Bergamo;

• Candelabra for the Paschal candle (with Arrigo Minerbi), 1952, bronze, high relief, Basilica of Santa Giustina in Padua;

• Compassion for the Votive Temple of Bergamo, 1953, white Carrara statuary marble, in the round;

• The Missing in Russia, 1954, Sarnico stone, in the round, Italian War History Museum from Rovereto (Trent);

• Hungary '56, 1956, bronze, in the round, Civic Art Collection of Pinerolo (Turin);

• New and Old Testament, 1956, Botticino marble, in the round, Moretti Tomb in the Cemetery of Pavia;

• Central door of the Basilica from Rapallo (with Arrigo Minerbi), 1957, bronze, high relief;

• War Memorial from Redonate (1958), Of Azzano San Paolo (1959), Of At least (1961), Of Endena (1970);

• Lion of San Marco for the Porta San Giacomo from Bergamo, 1958, Zandobbio marble, high relief;

• Lion of San Marco for the Porta Sant'Agostino from Bergamo, 1958, stone of Sarnico, high relief;

• Door of the Church of San Marco in Bergamo, based on the architectural design of Eng. Louis Angelini, 1959, bronze, high relief;

• Way of the cross, 1961-1971, bronze, high relief, Temple of Ognissanti in the Civic Cemetery of Bergamo;

• Spina's awakening, 1963, stone of Trani, in the round, National Archaeological Museum of Spina a Ferrara;

• Door of the underground church of the Episcopal Seminary of Bergamo, 1967, bronze, bas-relief;

• The refusal of motherhood, 1968, bronze, in the round, Academy of Fine Arts Tadini to love;

• Monument to the Bersagliere, 1971, bronze, in the round, Piazza del Risorgimento a Bergamo;

• Icarus, 1971, gray Carrara marble, in the round, Swiss Museum of Transport and Communications a Lamp;

• Female torso, 1972, pink Portuguese marble, in the round, Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery of Bergamo;

• Munich '72, 1972, gray Carrara marble, in the round, Natanya School of Physical and Sports Education of Tel-Aviv;

• Pope John praying, 1973, bronze, in the round, Angelo Mai Civic Library a Bergamo;

• Announced, 1973, statuary white marble from Carrara, high relief, Convent of the Santissima Annunziata a Florence;

• Christ Today, 1973, Carrara bardiglio marble, in the round, Church of the Military Ordinariate a Rome;

• The first born in space, 1973, bronze, bas-relief, Pushkin National Museum a Fly;

• dying bull, 1973, bronze in the round, City Palace of Zurich;

• The fall of man, 1974, bronze, in the round, Civic Museums of art and history of Brescia;

• Rising Christ, 1975, bronze, in the round, Crypt of the Bishops in the Bergamo Cathedral;

• Selene, 1976, bronze, in the round, Italian-American Museum a San Francisco;

• Madonna of the countryside, 1977, fresco, Church of the Valle del Fico - close;

• Love in space, 1977, bronze, bas-relief, Hermitage Museum, St.Pietroburgo;

• Grande Ballerina n.1 and n.2, 1977, bronze, in the round, Gaetano Donizetti Theatre from Bergamo;

• Franca, 1978, bronze bust, National Museum of Modern Art a Rome.