Archives: Pittore

Michele FALANGA (Bagnara Calabra, RC 1865 – Messina 1937) Michele Falanga was born in 1865 in Bagnara Calabra (RC). In 1879 he moved with his mother to Messina. The disastrous earthquake that struck the city in 1908 involved him personally. His culture and in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of the city, pushed him to devote...

Luigi BRACCHI (Tirano, Sondrio 1892 – Milano 1978) Born in Tirano, in the province of Sondrio, in 1892, Bracchi moved to Milan at the age of twenty, where he attended the Brera Academy and the studio of Giuseppe Ronchi from Brescia. He cultivated landscape and figure painting, using various techniques (oil, tempera, pastel, encaustic). In...

Ernst LIEBERMANN (Langemüss 1869 – Beuerberg 1960) German painter, graphic designer and illustrator, Liebermann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin under the guidance of Josef Scheurenberg from 1890 to 1893, the year in which he won the Academy’s gold medal. After several study trips to Germany, Italy and a longer stay in...

Enrico REYCEND (Turin 1855 – 1928) Descending from a historic family of booksellers and art dealers from Monestier de Briançon, in the Dauphiné, that moved to Turin in 1675, where it carried on a profitable business until 1863, Reycend studied at the Albertina Academy, leaving it in 1872 without graduating. He made his debut at...

Pino MANOS (Sassari 1930 – Milan 2020) Italian artist Pino Manos was born in Sassari, in Sardinia, in 1930. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Polytechnic University in Milan before completing his diploma in architecture in Florence. He travelled extensively across the world and settled permanently in Milan in 1968,...

EMMALISA MATTEAZZI SENIN (Este, Padova 1914 – Bologna 1995) She studies in Vicenza, where she lives with her parents and five brothers. Following her great passion for painting, her family allows her to continue her artistic studies in Venice with the painter Alessandro Milesi from 1933 to 1936. In 1936 she marries Angelo Senin and...

Gabriele Zago is an art director who lives and works in Turin. He is a photographer and a great traveler. These two aspects have always inspired him, leading him to explore new languages ​​to communicate. His research consists in documenting in images ethnic groups, territories and populations today threatened by progress and globalization, using post-production...

Odilon ROCHE (Châteauneuf-sur-Loire 1868 – Six-Fours-les Plages 1947) Odilon Roche was one among many fascinating characters in Paris in the first quarter of the 20th century. He actually began his professional career as a wine taster, travelling throughout Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 Roche opened a shop in Montmartre selling artists’ supplies, among his...

Dora MAAR (Paris 1907 –  1997) Dora Maar, original name Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Marković), French photographer and Surrealist artist whose career and accomplishments were overshadowed during her lifetime by the details of her affair with Pablo Picasso. Her work was resurrected and reexamined more thoughtfully after her death. Maar, whose mother was French and father...

Andrej LEVITIN (St. Petersburg 1947) Andrej Levitin was born in St. Petersburg in 1947 into a family of artists, the painters Maya Kopitzeva and Anatolij Levitin. Little Andrjusha spent the early years of his childhood in the “children’s room” inside the Academy of Fine Arts, a sort of kindergarten set up in the difficult postwar...