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Attilio Steffanoni (Bergamo, 22 September 1938) during his formative years attended the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where he later taught chalcographic techniques, and the Johnny Friedlaender School of Engraving in Paris. In 1961 he participated for the first time in the Italian engraving biennial in Venice, while his first personal exhibition dates back to 1959, at the Galleria Il Torcoliere in Rome where he had won the prize for engraving in the previous year. Read the full biography

Attilio Steffanoni (Bergamo, 22 September 1938) during his formative years attended the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where he later taught chalcographic techniques, and the Johnny Friedlaender School of Engraving in Paris. In 1961 he participated for the first time in the Italian engraving biennial in Venice, while his first personal exhibition dates back to 1959, at the Galleria Il Torcoliere in Rome where he had won the prize for engraving in the previous year. The first overall catalog of his engraving work, for which important collaborations with poets of absolute importance are noted, coincides with the donation of a corpus of 364 specimens by Steffanoni to the Accademia Carrara for the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Attilio Steffanoni . Le incisioni 1957-1995, Skira, Milan 1997), while more recently a catalog dedicated to the artist's watercolors and drawings (Il Faggio 2004) was printed, after the one dedicated to painting (Attilio Steffanoni. Paintings 1988-1999, Skira, Milan 2001). In 1959, therefore in conjunction with his debut, he illustrated for the publisher Schwarz an edition of 500 numbered copies of L'erba bianca by Giorgio Ceserano, for which he also illustrated Una visita di fine estate (Stamperia d'Arte Il Torcoliere, 1966) and, several years after the author's death, the short poem in nine movements entitled The Cambridge Cloister (Il Faggio 2007).