Attilio Andreoli Biography
ANDREOLI, Attilio. - Born on April 7th. 1877 in Milan, he was a pupil of G. Bertini and V. Bignami at the Brera Academy, where he exhibited for the first time in 1900 Rispha which protects the bodies of his children, which won the Gavazzi prize. In the early years of his career he achieved notable successes. In 1903 he won another prize in Milan with Christ and the adulteress (Milan, Gallery of Modern Art) and completed a cycle of wall decorations in the church of the Friars in via Farini; in the same year the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan received a gift of The Name Day of the Parish Priest in tempera and pastel. Leaving aside biblical and historical subjects, he dedicated himself to genre painting and portraits. In 1917 he won a gold medal in Milan with The Violinist. His Self-portrait is in the Piacenza Gallery and two portraits of benefactors are in the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. At the Catholic University, Contardo Ferrini is found in a glory of angels, which was his last work of any renown. Interest in his painting waned after 1925, but he was always an honorary member of the Brera Academy, even when he retired to live near Cannobbio. He died in Milan on 9 November. 1950. He mainly used an accurate and very virtuous spatula technique, completing his works without brush finishing, obtaining effects of compact colors and enamel. He was not interested in the artistic problems that were being debated around him, faithful to the program of anecdotal realism that he had soon set himself.
