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Achille Cattaneo (Milan 1872 - Milan 1931) Enrolled for almost a decade in drawing, perspective and architecture courses at the Brera Academy (1888-1896), he obtained the qualification to teach drawing in secondary schools without however reaching the diploma in architecture; he later entered into a relationship with Emilio Gola and became his student. Alongside his teaching commitment, carried out in Milan at the Carlo Cattaneo Institute, the Scuola Cavalli e Conti and the evening schools in via Moscati, he dedicates himself to perspective painting, portraying with perspicuous aptitude and rapid interior touches and Milanese and Venetian urban views, through which he seems to want to interpret the tradition of nineteenth-century Lombard "urban painting" in an impressionist key. Read the full biography

Achille Cattaneo Biography

Achille Cattaneo (Milan 1872 - Milan 1931) Enrolled for almost a decade in drawing, perspective and architecture courses at the Brera Academy (1888-1896), he obtained the qualification to teach drawing in secondary schools without however reaching the diploma in architecture; he later entered into a relationship with Emilio Gola and became his student. Alongside his teaching commitment, carried out in Milan at the Carlo Cattaneo Institute, the Scuola Cavalli e Conti and the evening schools in via Moscati, he dedicates himself to perspective painting, portraying with perspicuous aptitude and rapid interior touches and Milanese and Venetian urban views, through which he seems to want to interpret the tradition of nineteenth-century Lombard "urban painting" in an impressionist key. During the second decade of the century his interiors of Milanese churches, the views of the Navigli and other topical places of the urban fabric, the Venetian views or lakes were exhibited at the Venice Biennials (1925, 1926, 1928), at the Milan Nationals (1925, 1927), at the first Milanese exhibition of the Novecento Italiano (1926), and earned a presentation by Carlo Carrà on the occasion of the solo exhibition held in 1925 in Milan at Bottega di Poesia.