Carlo Cherubini Biography
Carlo Cherubini (Ancona, 1897 – Venice, 1978) was an Italian painter. He was the son of Adelia Certoni and the painter Giuseppe Cherubini (died in 1960), of whom he painted some portraits. From his marriage to a French woman Marie Rose Catalan, he had two children, Claudia in 1933 and Giancarlo in 1943. He participated in Venice (the city to which he had moved with the whole family) first in the eighth collective exhibition of Ca' Pesaro (1913 ) and then the following year at the Venice Biennale. Carlo Cherubini signed himself "Car Cher" in the works produced from 1911 to 1920. He took part again in the Biennial in 1922, 1924 and 1926. He was in Paris in 1927, where he decorated the Lido des Camps Elysées. In 1929 a solo exhibition of his was organized at the Galerie de la Renaissance in the French capital. In 1930 he received the Mention Honorable and in 1932 the Medaille d'Argent. In 1933 he was in New York, where he painted for the Lido Club on Long Island. In 1937 he exhibited in Pittsburgh. In 1940 he was in Venice where, among other things, he decorated the Al Colombo restaurant. There have been several exhibitions dedicated to him in recent times: the Carlo Cherubini exhibition dates back to 2012. A Venetian painter in Paris at the Galleria Nuova Arcadia in Padua, while in 2015 the Carlo Cherubini exhibition took place in Scorzè, Villa Orsini. A Venetian painter in Paris. In 2011, a catalog of his works was published, entitled Carlo Cherubini, edited by Guido Moro and Michele Rovoletto. In Venetian painters of the 20th century, Michele Barbon considers Cherubini among those painters who drew from the lessons of the Ca' Pesaro and Burano school, together with Nemo Mori, Marco Novati, Fioravante Seibezzi and Luigi Scarpa Croce.
