Giuseppe Chiacigh Biography
Giuseppe Chiacigh was born in Vladikavkaz, Caucasus, in 1895. Despite his non-specific academic training, the artist demonstrated great versatility in the different artistic disciplines he undertook during his career. These include mosaics, architecture, decoration and painting. Despite being born in Russia, where his parents were engaged in a commercial business, Chiacigh retained his Italian citizenship.
After undertaking an artistic apprenticeship at the Imperial Higher School of Architecture in Petrograd, Chiacigh moved to Udine after the turbulent years of the 1917 Revolution. Here he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, graduating in architecture. Subsequently, he became the designer and artistic director of a renowned glass factory in Murano, participating in the prestigious Florentine exhibitions of decorative arts. Furthermore, he also expressed his artistic commitment as a painter, tirelessly participating in group exhibitions in Rome, Florence, Turin and Milan, as well as regional and inter-union exhibitions.
His pictorial works, often inspired by popular and historical themes of the Caucasus (such as the battles between Tatars and Cossacks and the exploits of Ivan the Terrible, as well as the image of knights in warlike attitudes), received praise from Vittorio Emanuele in 1938 .
