Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Marciana Marina (Livorno); died 1971, in Milan.
Painter, ceramicist, illustrator, scenographer, writer. Stage costumes.
Futurism.
Giovanni Acquaviva studied philosophy and law at the University of Pisa, while devoting himself to illustration at the same time. He founded the Futurist group ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 26 January 1896, in Frosinone; died 30 April 1985, in Anzio.
Painter, draughtsman, watercolourist, art theorist. Figures, nudes, landscapes.
Futurism.
Alberto Bragaglia was the youngest of the four Bragaglia brothers. He taught himself to paint, attending life-drawing classes at the Accademia in Rome when he was young. While he was painting, he also studied philosophy, made stage sets and wrote about dance and theatre, often under the pseudonym Alberto Visconti (Visconti was his mother's maiden name). He contributed to numerous periodicals, and notably to the following: ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1884, in Naples; died 1977, in Livorno (Tuscany).
Poet, draughtsman, painter, watercolourist, sculptor.
Dadaism, Futurism.
Francesco Cangiullo was the elder brother of Pasquale Cangiullo. He participated in the Dada activities at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in around 1919. His friends Marinetti and Balla involved him in Futurist activities. He wrote theoretical works about Futurist theatre and became artistic director of the Compania del Teatro della Sorpresa. He was also a poet, and in ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 1900, in Naples; died 1975, in Naples.
Painter (including gouache), draughtsman, poet.
Futurism.
Pasquale Cangiullo was the younger brother of Francesco Cangiullo. He joined the Futurist group in Naples at the age of 13, which is how he got his moniker Pasqualino (little Pasquale). He worked as a journalist and cartoonist on various periodicals, including ...
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.
Born 3 October 1904, in Revello; died 9 February 1936, in Turin.
Painter, photomontage artist, writer, illustrator. Murals, ceramics.
Futurism.
Luigi Enrico Colombo took the pseudonym Fillia, which was his mother's maiden name. Although he died at the age of only 32, he was one of the most far-sighted thinkers to influence the evolution of artistic expression between the two World Wars. In fact, in the course of the many journeys he made right up to his death in Paris, he was in contact with the pioneers of abstract art, which was at that time ignored by everyone, and this was how he came to be linked with the leaders of the ...
Russian, 20th century, male.
Born 1886, in Herson; died 1968, in Moscow.
Poet, collage artist. Artists' books.
Futurism.
Alexei Krutchenykh was a poet and a theoretician of phonetic poetry who invented the 'zaum' or transrational language. He maintained close links with the visual arts, having his texts illustrated by Larionov, Goncharova and Malevich. He produced most of his work between ...
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 1907, in Milan; died 29 September 1998, in Milan.
Painter, sculptor, illustrator, designer, architect, writer. Mosaics, monuments (fountains).
Futurism.
MAC (Movimento Arte Concreta).
Bruno Munari was self-taught and began working as a graphic artist in 1925, producing illustrations for many magazines under the pseudonym ...
Russian, 20th century, female.
Born 21 June 1886, in Malenki; died 8 November 1918, in Moscow.
Painter, collage artist, draughtswoman, engraver, poet.
Futurism, Suprematism.
Groups: Soiuz Molodezhi (Union of Youth), Supremus.
Ol’ga Vladimirovna Rozanova studied at the Stroganov School of Art and Industry in Moscow. She was one of the most active members of the St Petersburg avant-garde. In ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Active also active in Switzerland.
Born 1901, in Turin; died 1998, in Cossonay-Ville (Lausanne).
Painter (gouache), draughtsman, watercolourist, screen printer, architect, art critic.
Futurism.
Alberto Sartoris studied at the School of Fine Arts in Geneva from 1916 to 1919, then at Turin ...
Italian, 20th century, male.
Born 7 April 1879, in Rignano sull'Arno (Florence); died 1964, in Forte dei Marmi (Lucca).
Painter, collage artist, monotype artist, watercolourist, engraver, writer, art critic. Figures, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes.
Futurism, Novecento Italiano.
Ardengo Soffici was a pupil of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. From 1900 to 1907 he was in Paris during which time he lived at la Ruche and joined with Apollinaire, Max Jacob, le Dounaier Rousseau and others. During this period he made drawings for ...
