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Biography
After the birth of Alberto in Milan, the family moved to Montecatini Terme.
His mother Estelle disappeared when he was six. Father Alexander, an Hungarian journalist and war correspondent in World War I, is contained by the regime fascist because of stateless.
Alberto must therefore grow with the grandparents and the "gang" of his street (he’d the youngest). To escape the persecutions of the Nazis who occupied Montecatini, Alberto escapes and finds refuge in the Tuscan countryside, by some gypsies in Florence, who teach him various circus arts.
He then begins writing for daily newspaper “The Nation” of Florence. In the early Fifties he goes to Venice to start an hotel career for which he then moves to Switzerland and Germany. At nineteen years old he arrives in Rome to pursue a journalistic career. He lives and works aside one of the fathers of the Italian Republic - historian Aldo Garosci – who helps him collaborating at the magazine "The World" by Mario Pannunzio. A lot of people follow his literary articles in the "third page" of daily newspapre L'Umanità.
Towards the early 60s, he meets painter Eva Fischer who ardesse him toward the arts. He directs a very populare art gallery in Rome, “The Spectrum”, for several years.
In the mid Seventies, he brings to success one of the first private italian televisions, GBR in Rome, along with colleague Maso Biggero (journalist in daily newspaper “Corriere della Sera”). Together they create a series of programs of culture and entertainment, gaining popularity and success and an important economical offer by a tv channel from Milan (after few years it’ll become Canale 5, one of the most important broadcating italian networks of today). However, Alberto refuses this offer not to leave his family in Rome.
In the Eighties he starts sculpting and painting. |