Achille Alberti Biography
Achille Alberti was an Italian artist, born in Milan on 12 March 1860 and died in Camnago, in the province of Monza, on 15 July 1943.
He studied art at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he later became a teacher. Together with other fellow students, such as Magni and Ripamonti, he created numerous sculptures to decorate the tombs in the monumental cemetery of Milan. Initially, he devoted himself to social issues, creating sculptures and monuments that earned him international notoriety.
In painting, however, he expressed his passion through landscapes, still lifes and portraits. In 1930, for example, he exhibited around thirty canvases in Milan, until then unknown, together with plaster casts, marbles and bronzes. He was also a designer for lithographic works.
In 1891, he received two prizes at the Milan Triennale for the bronze sculpture Ignavia, inspired by Dante's themes, which was then exhibited in Vienna in 1894 and which is now preserved in Busto Arsizio, in the Villa Ottolini. In 1892, one of his bas-reliefs, The Odes of Pindar, was exhibited in Munich, while in 1900 he participated in the Universal Exhibition in Paris. His works have been the subject of interest and admiration, earning him awards at all the exhibitions, Italian or European, in which he has taken part.
Alberti was highly appreciated by followers of Jean Royère and his "sculptural musicianship", such as Giuseppe Cartella Gelardi, who was an attentive and passionate critic of his work. He was responsible for the large statues on the facade of the Milan Stock Exchange building, built in 1901, in which it is possible to see signs of an eclectic sensitivity.
In 1930, a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Alberti was organized in the Galleria Pesaro in Milan.
