Bruno Degli Innocenti Biography
(Marmirolo, (Mantua), 24 March 1905 - Brescia, 1 November 1967). At first he worked in various jobs, including selling vegetables in the square, and then as a clerk. Until the last few days he played on the stock market. When he came to painting, he attended the school of Emilio Rizzi, but was above all self-taught. He began his artistic career in 1938, through high-level paintings, especially figurative ones. He was among the most interesting and discussed painters from 1938 to 1967. In around forty canvases he mainly depicted characters from the Carmine neighborhood which he liked to call "pimpinele". After years of alternating fortunes, from 1950 he had a fortunate period, in which he established himself in numerous exhibitions and also made himself known in Italy. A. Morucci wrote, "sometimes a little cold in the mixture - of greys, greens, etc. generally rather muted, other times full of emotion, especially when in the chromatic fabric the yellows and reds express a very interesting vital charge". In the last years of his life he dedicated himself above all to landscape, painting the canals of Missorbo, the lagoon of Chioggia ("Borin", Cà del Bepi", etc.), the lakes of Brescia and above all the Sebino ("Morning on the lake", "Fra gli ulivi", "End of autumn", "September in Montisola", etc.), and other places in Brescia ("Neve a Costalunga", "i Ronchi", "Valtenesi", etc.). a solo exhibition held at the AAB in 1966 and another posthumously, held at the Piccola Galleria.
