Luigi Bonazza Biography
Luigi Bonazza, born in Arco in 1877 and died in Trento in 1965, moved with his family to Rovereto, following the death of his father, and decided to attend the Royal Elizabethan High School. In 1897 he moved to Vienna to attend the Kunstgewerbeschule and entered the environment of the Viennese Secession. He created ex libris, illustrations, small portraits and advertising posters, winning the competition for the advertising poster of the Trentino Mountaineers and performing some illustrations for the "Alto Adige" magazine. In the twentieth century, he dedicated himself almost exclusively to engraving, exhibiting at the Viennese Secession in 1906. In 1911 he returned to Trento to teach at the technical institute, deciding to settle permanently in the city to build a house which he personally decorated, combining sculpture, architecture and painting. He founded the Circolo Artistico Trentino and, after the death of his mother and his call to arms, he took refuge in Milan where he opened an engraving studio. After the Second World War, Bonazza abandoned painting due to an eye disease and died in Trento in 1965 at the age of eighty-eight. His art is characterized by the harsh and harsh secessionist sign, together with its symbolist and liberty declination, and by his dedication to the engraving of both mythological subjects and lake views created on Lake Garda.
