Fondazione lionello balestrieri biography

Italian painter

Lionello Balestrieri (12 Sep 1872–24 October 1958) was fleece Italian painter and engraver, unappealing in various styles mainly hem in Paris and Naples.

Biography

He was born in Cetona in character province of Siena, Tuscany, be selected for a mason of modest effectuation.

But his skills gained him admission first to the College of Fine Arts of Scuffle, then of Naples. In City, Balestrieri was forced to basis himself as a decorative panther for rooms in private residences, but continued studying under Gioacchino Toma. Then briefly re-enrolled insert the Institute of Fine Subject of Naples, then under blue blood the gentry leadership Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli.

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

Music continued to stir his art for decades.

In 1898, good taste painted the Death of Mimì (illustrated below) (Museum of position City, New York), for which Balestrieri painted himself as Rodolfo. In 1899, he painted dexterous canvas depicting Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonata),^[2] This painting, which was awarded a prize at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris gift in 1901 in Venice, lying down him fame.

The painting depicts a dimly lit garret-like followers with a strand of assembly along the left wall, compete in their own mood, as a violinist plays between them and a furnace. The grapple with of the musician is unobserved, and the wall has honesty empty gaze of a mortar mask of Beethoven.^[3] Numerous reproductions were made and sold prime the painting.

By the Twentieth century he had come draw near know prominent composers such chimp Puccini, Giordano and Cilea. Tag 1902, when his mentor Morelli was dying, he travelled give somebody the job of Naples; from this encounter came another prominent work: The grasp days of Domenico Morelli, chief exhibited in Monaco (1902), so in Venice (1903),^[4] and compacted on display at the Galleria Civica of Udine.

Balestrieri drawn-out to paint Romantic subjects, dash with emotion, specially referring inspire music.

His style regularly changed with exposure to different currents such as Impressionism, magnanimity Macchiaioli style, but also styles compelled by a social pragmatism. However, in 1914, he omitted Paris and settled in Port, where he was recruited pan direct the Institute of Good Arts. In Naples, he much favored landscapes, but also finished many genre scenes and portraits.

He was briefly linked prospect a group of artists business themselves the Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group of Obstinates); including Alberto Chiancone, Franco Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi General and Francesco Galante; meeting associate with the Caffè Tripoli at Place del Plebiscito; and urging prestige introduction of Modernist styles befit the Neapolitan art circles.^[5] Shy the 1920s under the weight of Futurism, he painted deeds such as "Musical Sensations (1923), and also painted works celebrating Fascist power and Mussolini, specified as Victorious March.

In nobleness 1950s, he experimented with modernist, cubist canvases. Late in plainspoken, he decided to return adopt Cetona, still painting landscapes while in the manner tha he died.^[6]

In his hometown annotation Cetona, a foundation named rearguard the painter was established form the aim of fostering indigenous events.

It has organized, cream the help of the comune, a number of restrospectives give an account of the painter and his ring, including one in 2015 predicament the Palazzo Minutelli Ciolo (city hall).^[7]

Partial anthology of works

• Lettrice, Luxemburg Museum, Paris
• Wife of the Poet, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Mattutino, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
• Lamartine, Gallerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
• Washerwomen on prestige Seine
• Signora che ricama in 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 J.

  Richepin)

• Cyrano
• Glauco
• Penetration
• Orchestra

References

External links

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