Domenico Boscolo Natta Biography
He was born in Chioggia in 1925. In this city, where he lived for about twenty years, the slow and progressive path towards the dream of painting began. His first oil paintings date back to 1942, inspired by the tradition of the then very numerous lagoon painters. From 1943 to 1945, war events took him away from painting, which he resumed with enthusiasm in 1945. Having moved to Venice, where he was forced to earn a living by practicing the most varied professions, he gradually refined his technique and taste for drawing and various artistic expressions, drawing from the direct experience of contact with the artists of the Serenissima. In 1948, after his military discharge, he returned to the lagoon city and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, attending courses at the Free School of the Nude. In 1951 he was invited to the Burano Prize, thus beginning his attendance at Venetian artistic events. From these, he managed to obtain significant recognition from critics, who rewarded him on several occasions. In 1956 the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa assigned him an art studio where he could finally dedicate himself full time to painting. From 1960 he undertook a series of trips that brought him into contact with international artistic movements, staying and exhibiting in Spain, Switzerland and, subsequently, in France and the United States of America. In 1971, in Urbino, he perfected his knowledge of graphic techniques with particular attention to engraving. Over the last 25 years, with personal exhibitions, collective exhibitions and various academies, he has punctually underlined, in various Italian and foreign cities, the evolution of his pictorial and graphic research, to which he was last dedicated, on the occasion of a large exhibition held recently in his hometown, an extensive critical catalog regarding his work as an engraver. Since 1970 he has lived and worked in his country house in Piombino Dese. He died on January 5, 2002.
