Luigi Bartolini
(8 Feb 1892 - 16 May 1963) |
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Luigi Bartolini |
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Cupramontana, Ancona, |
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Italian |
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8 Feb 1892 |
| Death: |
16 May 1963 |
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painter, printmaker and writer |
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Biography
| He spent his youth in Rome, Siena and Florence and completed his studies in 1910 at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Siena. He made his first etchings around 1909 in Florence, where he studied the prints of Jacques Callot, Giovanni Fattori and Rembrandt and attended both the faculty of arts of the university as well as courses in anatomy at the faculty of medicine. Bartolini began painting in oils just before World War I and during the war fought as an officer at the Front. He resumed his artistic activity in 1919, establishing himself as a printmaker. He continued to produce paintings, however, for example Meeting with Nomads. In 1932, along with Giorgio Morandi and Boccioni, he won a prize at the Mostra dellIncisione Italiana in Florence and in 1935 obtained first prize for printmaking at the second Quadriennale at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, where he exhibited 50 etchings. He demonstrated great facility and inventiveness as a printmaker, often incorporating short poetic phrases in the plates. Bartolini travelled extensively in Italy and abroad from 1919, when he began to teach printmaking, in part because of his polemical involvement in the artistic and cultural debates of his time. He was extremely active both as a journalist for such publications as Il Selvaggio, Quadrivio, Italia letteraria and LAmbrosiano and as a writer; his novel Ladri di biciclette was later made into a feature film by Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini. He remained very involved with printmaking after World War II, exhibiting his work internationally, and in 1956 was awarded the Premio Marzotto in Florence for his painting. |
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