Almina Dovati Fusi Biography
Almina Dovati Fusi (1908 - 1992), born in Carrara and trained in Florence, is one of those rare artists who used etching almost exclusively for their expression, achieving notable results in this field, and helping to draw attention on this ancient graphic technique. He enrolled in the Free Nude Course in Florence at the Academy of Fine Arts directed at the time by Maestro Felice Carena. The course lasts only three months, not enough to fit into the artistic life of the city, but enough to start a very close relationship with it. After the war he moved to Florence and painted and drew many views of the city always accompanied by a "piece" of nature: trees, gardens, flowers, short horizons of greenery that reveal the ever-alive memory of the countryside of his childhood. At the end of the 1950s he decisively embarked on the path of engraving; the plate becomes the ideal sheet of paper and as she herself will say, etching will become the most suitable means to express the poetry of her inner world. The meeting that took place in recent years with the Pistoia artist Francesco Chiappelli is certainly important. From this relationship, which was later transformed into a sincere friendship, Dovati acquired a sure mastery of the technical procedures in the field of engraving, thus arriving at defining precise and definitive choices in accordance with her sensitivity. His works appear in private and public museums and collections, in Italy and abroad. A collection of etchings and plates is found in the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi and in the Collection of the Marucelliana Library and at the Central National Library of Florence.
