Gianrodolfo D'accardi Biography
Gian Rodolfo D'Accardi (Palermo, 9 June 1906 – Varese, 1993) was an Italian painter. Gian Rodolfo D'Accardi was born in Palermo in 1906. After finishing his classical studies, in 1925 he moved to Milan with his family. He began his pictorial activity in the 1930s and immediately made himself noticed on the Milanese art scene: some of his works were purchased by the Civic Gallery of Modern Art. As the years went by, he increasingly established himself, exhibiting his works in the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th editions of the Rome Quadrennial and at the 1948 Venice Biennale. Added to this are the numerous international exhibitions: Washington, New York, Paris, Lugano. After living in the United States for many years, he returned to Italy in the early 1980s. He continued to paint until his death in 1993. One of his works is exhibited at Palazzo Sormani in Milan, in the loan room. The work Flight into Egypt belongs to the art collections of the Cariplo Foundation.
