BIELLA 1933 Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. His artistic training began in the studio of his father, a painter and restorer, where he went to work at the age of fourteen. He subsequently attended Armando Testa’s advertising design school. In 1955...
ROCCA DI PAPA (ROMA) 1955 Piero Pizzi Cannella was born in Rocca di Papa on November 20, 1955. In Rome, about halfway through the seventies, he went regularly to lessons in painting held by Alberto Ziveri at the Rome academy of art, though without completing the...
MALAGA (SPAIN) 1881 - MOUGINS (FRANCE) 1973 Pablo Picasso, was born on October 25, 1881. He was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for...
PISTOIA 1901 - VIAREGGIO (LU) 1980 Marino Marini was born in Pistoia on February 27, 1901. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence when he was only sixteen and began by studying drawing and painting; his first approach to sculpture dates from 1922. He...
BARCELLONA DI SICILIA (ME) 1937 Emilio Isgrò (born in Barcellona, Sicily, 1937) is considered, along with Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, to be one of the great trailblazers in Italian artistic language after the Second World War. 1956 Isgrò moved to Milan, where he...
TORINO 1942 Piero Gilardi was born in Turin in 1942. In 1963 he held his first one-man show, entitled Machines for the future. In 1965 he created his first pieces in polyurethane foam and exhibited them in Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Amsterdam and New York. As...
NAPLES 1933 - MILAN 2020 Born in Naples in 1933, he studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. In 1958 (along with Biasi, Di Bello, Fergola, Luca and Persico) he founded the Gruppo 58, which was linked with the Movimento Nucleare, directed by Enrico...
BERLINO (GERMANY) 1895 - SAINT TROPEZ (FRANCE) 1971 Campigli was born in Berlin, but spent most of his childhood in Florence. His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the Letteratura magazine, frequenting avant-garde circles and making the acquaintance...
VITEBSK (RUSSIA) 1887 - SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE (FRANCE) 1985 1887 Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk (White Russia) on 7 July 1887, the eldest of eight children. He attended a heder, a Jewish primary school for seven/eight years and was then admitted to a public school....
ARGENTUIL (FRANCE)1882 - PARIGI (FRANCE) 1963 Georges Braque was born on 13 May 1882, in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise. He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied artistic painting during...
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