Duilio Corompai Biography
Duilio Corompai was born in 1876 in Venice. Initially, his family moved to Milan in 1890. Here the young Corompai attended the Brera Academy, being fifteen years old at this point. Subsequently, the family moved again, this time to Bologna, where Corompai graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts.
Having returned to his hometown again in 1897, he frequented Luigi Nono's studio in particular. In 1905 he participated in the Venice Biennale for the first time, later becoming a regular participant. His last contribution to this exhibition dates back to 1935, to the exhibition commemorating the forty years since its foundation. In the same years, he participated several times in the Ca' Pesaro exhibitions. He exhibited frequently at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Milan, as well as at various exhibitions held in Turin, Udine and Pordenone. It was precisely in this city that he moved after the First World War to teach drawing in technical schools.
The Venetian and Friulian landscape was the main theme of his painting, represented with a use of light and transparency that gave it a sort of fresh and brilliant atmosphere, even in works of considerable size.
Duilio Corompai dedicated much of his work to sacred art, creating frescoes and painting altarpieces for various churches in Veneto and Friuli. An example of his work can be admired in the church of S. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, where his Saint Thomas is located. Some notable works are today preserved in the Civic Art Museum of Pordenone.
Corompai died in 1952 in Noventa Vicentina
