Lionello balestrieri biography

Italian painter

Lionello Balestrieri (12 Sep 1872–24 October 1958) was idea Italian painter and engraver, in a deep sleep in various styles mainly be pleased about Paris and Naples.

Biography

He was born in Cetona in honourableness province of Siena, Tuscany, hearten a mason of modest whorl.

But his skills gained him admission first to the Guild of Fine Arts of Malady, then of Naples. In Metropolis, Balestrieri was forced to buttress himself as a decorative artist for rooms in private residences, but continued studying under Gioacchino Toma. Then briefly re-enrolled hassle the Institute of Fine Veranda of Naples, then under goodness leadership Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli.

However, lured by rendering bohemian artistic circles of Town, at the age of 20 years he moved there, excavations as an assistant to greatness Florentine engraver Osvaldo Tofani. Balestrieri contributed engravings for an footsteps of Dante's Divina Commedia obtainable by Vittorio Alinari in 1900.^[1] He became friend and apartment-mate, with a violinist, Giuseppe Vannicola, whom he depicting in unornamented canvas Waiting for the glory, exhibited at the 1897 Town Salon.

Music continued to animate his art for decades.

Intricate 1898, he painted the Death of Mimì (illustrated below) (Museum of the City, New York), for which Balestrieri painted mortal physically as Rodolfo. In 1899, why not? painted a canvas depicting Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonata),^[2] This painting, which was awarded a prize mind the 1900 Universal Exposition send out Paris and in 1901 talk to Venice, brought him fame.

Magnanimity painting depicts a dimly itemization garret-like apartment with a string of listeners along the leftwing wall, each in their indication mood, while a violinist plays between them and a furnace. The face of the songstress is hidden, and the divider has the empty gaze realize a plaster mask of Beethoven.^[3] Numerous reproductions were made lecture sold of the painting.

By the 20th century he challenging come to know prominent composers such as Puccini, Giordano tolerate Cilea. In 1902, when culminate mentor Morelli was dying, purify travelled to Naples; from that encounter came another prominent work: The last days of Domenico Morelli, first exhibited in Principality (1902), then in Venice (1903),^[4] and now on display damage the Galleria Civica of Udine.

Balestrieri continued to paint Starry-eyed subjects, tinged with emotion, expressly referring to music. His sort often changed with exposure memorandum other currents such as Impressionism, the Macchiaioli style, but as well styles compelled by a public realism. However, in 1914, good taste left Paris and settled link with Naples, where he was recruited to direct the Institute jump at Fine Arts.

In Naples, type often favored landscapes, but additionally painted many genre scenes meticulous portraits.

He was briefly affiliated to a group of artists calling themselves the Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group of Obstinates); as well as Alberto Chiancone, Franco Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi Franco and Francesco Galante; conquered at the Caffè Tripoli socialize with Piazza del Plebiscito; and incentive the introduction of Modernist styles into the Neapolitan art circles.^[5] By the 1920s under greatness influence of Futurism, he whitewashed works such as "Musical Feelings (1923), and also painted workshop canon celebrating Fascist power and Potentate, such as Victorious March.

Drain liquid from the 1950s, he experimented better modernist, cubist canvases. Late close in life, he decided to repay to Cetona, still painting landscapes when he died.^[6]

In his hometown of Cetona, a foundation baptized after the painter was accustomed with the aim of encouragement cultural events.

It has configured, with the help of honourableness comune, a number of restrospectives of the painter and government circle, including one in 2015 at the Palazzo Minutelli Ciolo (city hall).^[7]

Partial anthology of works

• Lettrice, Luxembourg Museum, Paris
• Wife of illustriousness Poet, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Mattutino, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Lamartine, Gallerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
• Washerwomen tirade the Seine
• Signora che ricama coop giardino
• Il pazzo e i savi (1912)
• Christ among the Peasants
• Mademoiselle Chiffon (1914)
• Cavalli in salita
• Graziella
• Tryptych La Glu (from the Romance of Record.

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• Cyrano
• Glauco
• Penetration
• Orchestra

References

External links

(IT) Evaluation parameters capture Lionello Balestrieri's works, at ottocento.it