Ettore Bugatti
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Ettore Bugatti (1932)
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15 September 1881 Milan, Italy |
| Died | 21 August 1947 (aged 65) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Dorlisheim, France |
| Citizenship | France (naturalized) |
| Occupation | Automotive engineer |
| Years active | 1898–1947 |
| Employer | Automobiles E. Bugatti (founder) |
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Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 – 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti.
Ettore Bugatti was born into an artistic family with its origin in Milan, Italy. He was the elder son of Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Italian Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer, and his wife Teresa Lorioli. His younger brother was a renowned animal sculptor, Rembrandt Bugatti (1884–1916). His aunt, Luigia Bugatti, was the wife of the painter Giovanni Segantini. His paternal grandfather, Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, was an architect and sculptor.
Ettore's father intended that he follow a conventional technical apprenticeship with one of the Milanese tri-/quadricycle manufacturers, but the boy quickly demonstrated a deep instinctive understanding of wide range of aspects of motor-vehicle construction, and with Prinetti & Stucchi constructed his "Bugatti Type 1" in 1898.
With financial support from his father, Ettore Bugatti developed a second prototype which was a prize-winning exhibit at the in the Spring of 1901. Bugatti's design also caught the eye of Baron de Dietrich who offered Bugatti the opportunity to come and design automobiles at his car factory in Niederbronn.Frontier changes following the Franco-Prussian War had left De Dietrich with two car factories in two different countries: the Niederbronn plant, to which Bugatti now relocated was in Alsace, which had been part of Germany since 1871, reverting to French control only in 1919.
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