Armando Buso Biography
Armando Buso (Tezze di Piave, 28 June 1914 – Oderzo, 17 December 1975) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born on 28 June 1914 to Carlo Buso (originally from Oderzo) and Elisabetta Cruzzolin (originally from Ormelle) as the couple's third child. In 1930 he moved to Rome to join the workshop of the decorator Antonino Calcagnadoro. He enrolled in painting school and received some lessons from Calcagnadoro. After two years he returned to Veneto and was welcomed into the house-workshop of the painter of Friulian origins Umberto Martina who worked in Venice. He followed the master for ten years, getting to know Virgilio Tramontin, of whom he became "his favourite, his last beloved student". In 1942 he held his first solo exhibition in Venice at the Bevilacqua La Masa. In the same year he exhibited at the Venice International Art Exhibition, an exhibition which he would repeat in 1948. In 1945 his mentor Umberto Martina died and a new phase of his artistic life began for him. He married in 1950, tying the knot with Bianca Fregonese. He continues to exhibit in various personal and collective galleries in Italy and around the world, as well as taking part in competitions, highlighting his fantastic qualities of painting, drawing and linocut. 1963 was a golden year: on 24 April his daughter Giuliana was born and she obtained first prize at the V Biennial of Contemporary Italian Engraving in Venice. His name is now popular with everyone and even Oderzo pays homage to him so much so that Armando Buso will integrate and restore some pictorial decorations of the city Cathedral. After years of work and projects, a little tired, he took a year of semi-break in 1974. He died on 17 December 1975 when, upon returning home for lunch from the studio, he complained of back pain and after a brief agony, he died in early afternoon at the age of 61. The funeral takes place in solemn form at the Cathedral of Oderzo and the City Council decides to name a city street after the master.
