Ettore Bugatti

Ettore Bugatti Biography

Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti though his family was French was born in Milan on 15 September 1881. He grew up within an artistic family, the elder son of Carlo Bugatti, an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewellery designer, and his wife Teresa Lorioli. His younger brother was a renowned animal sculptor, Rembrandt Bugatti and his paternal grandfather, Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, was an architect and sculptor.

At a young age Bugatti demonstrated a deep instinctive understanding of a wide range of aspects concerning motor-vehicle construction. Later he attended the Fine Art Academy at Brera to study sculpture inder Prince Paul Troubetsky. In Jonathan Wood’s assessment of Bugatti is that Bugatti was an artist pure and simple. His only scientific knowledge stemmed from ever growing experience plus a natural mechanical bent supported by gift of observation.