Cristoforo De Amicis (Alessandria 1902 - Milan 1987) At the end of the lower course of the Albertina Academy, attended in Turin, he enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, the city in which he would reside for the rest of his life. He graduated from the Brera Academy and obtained the Hayez Prize for the most deserving graduate student. Read the full biography
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Cristoforo De Amicis (Alessandria 1902 - Milan 1987) At the end of the lower course of the Albertina Academy, attended in Turin, he enrolled at the Brera Academy in Milan, the city in which he would reside for the rest of his life. He graduated from the Brera Academy and obtained the Hayez Prize for the most deserving graduate student. From '27 to '29, he participated in the "Italian twentieth century" exhibitions in Italy and abroad, garnering critical acclaim. At the beginning of 1930 he went through a profound crisis, so he almost completely abandoned painting and began an intense activity in the field of architecture, in collaboration with the studio of the architects Lingeri and Terragni. The short period of abstractionism originated from his association with the razonalist architects. with Composition 1 and 2 and Composition in red. In the following years he returned to figurative painting, with a greater chromatic richness in the context of "Cezannian" research. He spent the war years (1942/45) in Lodi, where he painted the large composition Death of Harlequin and Red Still Life, approaching post-cubist expressions. In 1979 a first vascular accident to his lungs knocked him down physically and morally. Having achieved an acceptable recovery, he resumed his activity, reducing the size of the paintings and dedicating himself to the themes of still life, landscape, flowers and Madonnas. He finally feels gratified by the growing market demand, as an exponent of Chiarism. 1982 In the Annitrenta exhibition four of his works are in the "Reaction to the twentieth century" section and one in the "Abstracts" section. His presence in two different sections takes on the meaning of an important recognition of his research in the 1930s. In October he was on the jury for a painting competition in Lodi, in the following days he was struck by a cerebral spasm. He died on 23 April 1987 in his home in Milan.
