Archives: Pittore

Ugo CELADA (Cerese di Virgilio, Mantua 1895- Varese 1995) Born in Cerese di Virgilio, a small town near Mantua, he drew so well as a child that he convinced his father to enroll him, at just twelve years old, in the Royal School of Applied Arts in Mantua. From there, thanks to a scholarship, he...

Cornelio GERANZANI (Genoa 1880 – 1955) Italian Divisionist painter. He gave up his law studies to take up painting, studying under Giovanni Quinzio, who was then director of the Accademia Ligustica in Genoa. After initially embracing the theory and technique of Pointillism, he soon moved on from conventional landscape painting to the Divisionist technique. He exhibited in...

Anna SOGNO ARBORIO MELLA (Ello, Como, 1923 – Turin, 2004) Anna Sogno’s artistic talent was directly derived from the cultural interests within her own family. The paternal great great-grandfather founded the Academy of Fine Arts of Vercelli, afterwards directed and expanded by her great-grandfather, and her maternal great-grandmother was a good painter of the school...

Nikolai TERESHENKO (1924-2005) Nikolai Ivanovich Tereshenko was born in the village Matveevka in the Orlov oblast. He went to the Moscow Art School from the middle of the 1930’s, amongst his teachers were S. Mikhailov and V. Pochitalov. From 1946 he studied at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow under A. Osmerkin. During the 1950’s...

THAYAHT (Florence 1893 – Marina di Pietrasanta, Lu 1959) Thayaht was the pseudonym of artist and designer Ernesto Michahelles, best known for his revolutionary overall design and his involvement, along with his brother Ruggero—stage name RAM—in the Italian Futurist movement. Of Anglo-Swiss origin, a descendant of the famous American neoclassical sculptor Hiram Powers, he lived...

Giuseppe Cominetti began his art studies in Turin but soon moved to the Genoese hinterland, finally settling in Genoa in 1902 to complete his education. He thus became part of a circle of Ligurian painters and artists centered around the studio of sculptor Pietro Capurro, which encompassed the entire Genoese artistic scene of the early...

Ugo POZZO (Turin 1900 – 1981) Ugo Pozzo was born in Turin on July 5, 1900. From 1919 to 1921 he began to exhibit his first Futurist paintings with Tullio Alpinolo Bracci and Luigi Colombo (Fillia). These are almost clandestine exhibitions held in basements, clubs and suburban ballrooms. On March 5, 1923 he founded the...

Renato RIGHETTI (di Bosso) (Verona 1905 – Arbizzano in Valpolicella, Vr 1982) Renato Righetti, better known as Renato Di Bosso, born in Verona in 1905, was a great Italian artist and painter of the Futurist movement, one of the most important talents expressed in the Veneto region in the 20th century, and the author of...

Osvaldo PERUZZI (Milan, 1907 – Livorno, 2004) Painter, joined Futurism in the 1930s, attracted by the artistic research of Prampolini, Fillia and Munari. He moved to Livorno, where he devoted himself to the family business, a thriving glassworks. In 1933 he took part in the exhibition “Futurist Homage to Umberto Boccioni” at the Pesaro Gallery...

Giovanni ACQUAVIVA (Marciana Marina 1900 – Milano 1971) Originario dell’Isola d’Elba, Giovanni Acquaviva si laurea in giurisprudenza all’Università di Pisa e diviene magistrato e giudice al tribunale di Milano. Aderisce giovanissimo al Futurismo, dedicandosi inizialmente all’illustrazione, ad esempio di alcuni libri di Fortunato Bellonzi, in cui rivela l’influenza di Giacomo Balla. Nel 1938 promuove a...