Girolamo Cairati Biography
CAIRATI, Girolamo. - Painter, born in Trieste on 23 March 1860, living in Munich. After attending the Milan Polytechnic (1877-82), he abandoned architecture for painting, becoming a pupil (1883-85) of Luigi Conconi. He first cultivated the figure, then the country, which he did not treat according to the impressionistic dogmas prevailing at the time, but always seeking a decorative cut, preferring a few muted tones - almost like in a monochrome - and a tight and covered workmanship. For this reason he has favored and prefers the quiet and melancholic visions of medieval castles and ancient ruins, of abandoned villas and deserted cities, of rivers and lakes, where silence reigns supreme among tall dark trees, of large mountain and alpine expanses. He has exhibited, as well as in numerous national and foreign exhibitions, almost always in Venice, even in recent years; and particularly certain "fixed pastels" of his invention, making them an interesting exhibition in 1909. The galleries of Rome, Venice, Munich and Mannheim, and many private collections possess his works.
