ALBERTO PIRELLI, 1950

Alberto PIRELLI (28 April 1882 - 19 October 1971), company manager and Italian entrepreneur. With his brother Piero he continued the activities of his father Giovanni Battista for the development of the Pirelli Company, of which he was President. In addition to taking part in the administration of important industrial and financial companies, he carried out a considerable activity based on general interests both in Italy and in representation of Italy abroad. Member of the Economic High Council during the peace negotiation in 1919, he was a negotiator for Italy, from 1923 to 1930, for all negotiations concerning the settlement of debts and war reparations. Member of the first council of the International Labor Office and Economic Committee of the League of Nations; President of the International Chamber of Commerce; Minister of State since 1938; founder and President of ISPI Institute for International Policy Studies. Senator Alberto Pirelli in a photographic portrait by Ghitta Carell (September 20, 1899 - January 18, 1972), photographed Hungarian naturalized Italian, official portraitist of the Italian royals and eminent personalities of the regime, who in the years after the war performed portraits in various characters of culture, politics, nobility and Roman bourgeoisie. Italy, 1950