Camillo GALIZZI (Bergamo 1880 – 1962)
Born to a family of artists, he was the son of painter Luigi Galizzi and painter Selene Scuri. Brother of Giovanni Battista, also a painter, he began his engineering studies at the University of Turin, where he met Angela Vigliani, whom he married in 1906.
After completing his studies, he returned to Bergamo, where he began designing religious buildings, working in collaboration with his father and participating in the competition for the bell tower for the church of San Lazzaro in Bergamo, a project that was exhibited at the Artistic Circle. The church had been frescoed by his father and brother.
In 1920, he presented his projects at the National Exhibition of Sacred Art in Venice, relating to the War Memorial of Sudorno, and to the churches of Albino and Gandellino. He was also a member of the Bergamasco Artistic Circle. The following year, he exhibited at the first Roman Biennial exhibition and in 1923 at the international exhibition in Monza, where he contributed to the design of the exhibition. However, his main activity was architecture. In fact, he designed some sacred buildings in the province of Bergamo, including the bell tower of the Church of San Michele al Pozzo Bianco, the parish church of Gandellino started in 1920, the church of Cristo Re in the hamlet of Comenduno di Albino in 1921 and, again in the municipality of Albino, the church of Sant’Antonio di Padova in the hamlet of Fiobbio, started in 1919 and completed in 1924. He was also active in the field of painting, and with his brother and other artists, he founded the Society of Etchers of Bergamo. His paintings are part of the Lombard divisionism tradition and were exhibited, along with those of his brother Giovanni Battista, in various group exhibitions. The production material in the artist’s archive was donated by Luigi Galizzi, his brother’s son, to the Angelo Mai Civic Library in 1992, and consists of six folders containing many paintings and projects.