Portuguese, 20th century, male.
Born 1893, in Fazenda-Saudade (Sao-Tomé); died 1970, in Lisbon.
Painter, draughtsman, newspaper cartoonist. Wall decorations, designs for stained glass.
Futurism.
José Sobral de Almada-Negreiros was an active witness of the Portugal of his time. He used a wide variety of methods in his unending attempt to open Portugal to Europe and the modern world. Although he was a writer, poet, polemicist and playwright, he had no formal training in art. In ...
Belgian, 20th century, male.
Born 1896, in Liège; died 1995.
Painter, collage artist, watercolourist, illustrator, decorative designer, designer.
Futurism, Constructivism.
Groupe 7 Arts.
Baugniet attended the art academy in Brussels where he studied under the Belgian Symbolist painter Jean Delville. He married the dancer and painter Akarova (Marguerite Acarin). His early paintings were figurative, and he was then influenced by French Cubism and international Constructivism. In 1922, Baugniet became a member of the Belgian group ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 11 February 1881, in Quargnento (Alessandria); died 13 April 1966, in Milan.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, collage artist, engraver (including etching), lithographer, decorative designer, art theorist. Landscapes, landscapes with figures, urban landscapes, seascapes. Frescoes.
Futurism, Pittura Metafiscia (Metaphysical Painting), Novecento Italiano, Magic Realism...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in Scandinavia.
Born 1883, in Arnara; died 1966, in Venice.
Painter, decorative artist.
Futurism.
He studied at the academy of fine art in Rome, and participated in the 1905 Salon des Refusés in Paris. In 1906-1908, with Gambelotti and Prof. Bazzani, he learned the art of theatre decoration at the Argentine national theatre in Rome. In ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in France and in Egypt.
Born 1910, in Igalo; died 5 August 2000, in Milan.
Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, architect, sculptor, decorative designer. Landscapes with figures, landscapes, architectural views. Stage sets, monuments, medals.
Futurism.
Crali was born in what is now called Croatia. Several months later, his family settled in Zara (now Zadar), where he lived until ...
Russian, 20th century, female.
Active in France from 1924.
Born 1882 or 1884, in Bielostok (Kiev); died 1949, in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France.
Painter, decorative artist. Stage sets, stage costumes.
Symbolism, Futurism, Constructivism.
Groups: Golubaya Roza (Blue Rose), Bubnovy Valet (Jack of Diamonds).
A student at the school of fine art in Kiev, Aleksandra Exter exhibited for the first time with the ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 2 August 1888, in Rome; died 5 June 1958, in Turin.
Painter. Stage sets, furniture.
Futurism.
In Rome, Ugo Giannattasio studied under the sculptor Ximenes and at the Accademia. He knew Paris well, as he had spent his childhood there, and in ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 21 January 1895, in Livorno; died 1 May 1960, in Rome.
Draughtsman, watercolourist, architect, scenographer, decorative designer, art theorist.
Futurism.
Virgilio Marchi studied architecture in Siena and Lucca and met the members of
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 20 April 1894, in Modena; died 1956, in Rome.
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman (including ink), collage artist, scenographer. Figures, portraits, landscapes, interiors, still-lifes. Stage costumes and sets, marionettes, wall decorations, furniture.
Futurism, Dadaism.
Groups: Cercle et Carré, Abstraction-Création, Group 40.
Enrico Prampolini studied briefly with Diulio Cambellotti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in, Rome, but was expelled in 1913. He wrote his own manifesto, ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 12 May 1885, in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia; died 1961, in Milan.
Painter (gouache), illustrator, draughtsman, decorative designer, sculptor. Figures, portraits, urban landscapes. Murals, stage sets.
Futurism, Novecento Italiano.
Milanese School.
Mario Sironi was studying mathematics in Rome with the intention of becoming an engineer when he decided to enrol in the academy of fine art. He met Severini and Boccioni who introduced him to Balla. After 1914, he moved to Milan, his parents' home town. He was not only an artist but also a writer on art and an architect.Sironi's paintings depict a variety of subjects, often including faces, and seek to portray the wretchedness of the human condition in urban society. He was only briefly associated with Futurism, in 1915. Often using a collage technique applied to coloured paper, he produced works with broad contrasting planes 'on the modern myths of machines and speed' with titles like ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 21 August 1893, in Florence; died 1959, in Marina di Pietrasanta.
Painter, sculptor, engraver (burin), medallist, decorative artist, goldsmith.
Futurism.
A pupil of L. Andreotti, Ernesto Michehelles Thayaht was the brother of the painter Ruggiero Michaelles. Like him, he was a member of the Tuscan Futurist group formed in ...
