We would like to inform you about a project launched three years ago in Florence - Italy for the memory of Horst Fantazzini, an Italian anarchist and artist that spent most of his life in prison, where he eventually died six years ago. He was well known as the " gentle bandit " , cause he used to make bank robberies with toy guns or by bike.
About his life the Italian director Enzo Monteleone made a movie in 1999 with the actor Stefano Accorsi performing Horst.
After his death, 108 artists from all over the world dedicated to him a work, a drawing, a picture, giving life to the itinerant exhibition " Mail Art - Bandit by Bicycle " .

After months of research and collection of all material we have been able to find about his life, we published a web site, that group most of the documents, articles, initiatives, books about Horst, as well as his drawings, poems, tales, pieces of writing and other work born from his creativity. Although most part of the web site is in Italian, you can read all the biography in English and Spanish, and enjoy the section Mail art, as well as all Horst Fantazzini works in section " Opere " .
This project wouldn't never been realized without the figure of Patrizia " Pralina " Diamante, Horst's last mate.
We hope you will have a look and find our work useful to know better Horst Fantazzini.
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Horst Fantazzini memory web site - http://www.horstfantazzini.net