Everything about Ettore Bugatti totally explained
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (
September 15,
1881,
Milan, died on
August 21,
1947) was an
Italian automobile designer and manufacturer.
He came from a notably artistic family with its roots in
Milan. He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband
Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important
Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer. His younger brother was a renowned animal sculptor,
Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916), his aunt, Luigia Bugatti, was the wife of the painter
Giovanni Segantini, and his paternal grandfather,
Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, was an architect and sculptor.
Before founding his own automobile company, Ettore designed a number of engines and vehicles for others.
Prinetti & Stucchi produced his 1898
Type 1. From
1902 through
1904,
Dietrich built his
Type 3/
4 and
Type 5/
6/
7 under the
Dietrich-Bugatti marque. In
1907, Bugatti went to work for the
Deutz Gasmotoren Fabrik, designing the
Type 8/
9.
On his own time, Bugatti developed the
Type 2 (in 1900 and 1901), and the 1903
Type 5. While at Deutz, Bugatti built his
Type 10 in the basement of his home. In 1913, Bugatti designed a small car for
Peugeot, the
Type 19 "Bébé".
Although born in Italy,
Bugatti's eponymous automobile company was set up in
Molsheim in the
Alsace region, now part of
France. Ettore Bugatti was its technical innovator, developing a number of engines and chassis for the numerous models produced over the next three decades. The company was known for the advanced engineering in its premium road cars and its success in early
Grand Prix motor racing, a Bugatti winning the first ever
Monaco Grand Prix.
Ettore Bugatti also designed a successful motorized railcar, the
Autorail, and an
airplane, though this never flew. His son,
Jean Bugatti, was killed on
August 11,
1939 at the age of 30, while testing a
Type 57 tank-bodied race car near the
Molsheim factory. After that, the company's fortunes began to decline. World War II ruined the factory in Molsheim, and the company lost control of the property. During the war, Bugatti planned a new factory at Levallois in
Paris and designed a series of new cars.
Ettore Bugatti was buried in the Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in
Dorlisheim near Molsheim in the
Bas-Rhin département of the
Alsace region of France.
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