Paolo Frosecchi Biography
Paolo Frosecchi was born in Florence in 1924. He lived his early years in the enchantment of the Tuscan countryside, in Villa all'Impruneta, where writers and painters of that enlightened time which took its name from the Macchiaioli met. He followed his studies on the banks of the Arno between Pontevecchio and Santa Trinità, involved in a moral richness that drew deeply from the perspectives of Santo Spirito and San Frediano up to the Carmine where Masaccio blocked his voice. Grandfather Cesare was an art lover and as early as 1916 he could boast "the largest and most complete collection of Tuscan Macchiaioli that existed in Florence". His father Augusto, journalist and critic, friend and frequenter of Berenson and Longhi, continued the collection by expanding it to pointillists and scapigliati. In this environment full of excitement and intelligence, the young Paolo, just fifteen years old, was introduced to colors and brushes. He instinctively binds himself to the lesson of the Macchiaioli, who since childhood had "spoken to him from the familiar walls". Once the war was over, at the beginning of the 1950s Frosecchi moved to Rome where he participated in the VIII Quadrennial. In 1960 he was in Milan, his third city/third root - where he has the opportunity to develop and enhance his artistic profession. Since then Paolo Frosecchi has dedicated himself body and soul to painting, exhibiting in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, England, Italy, Holland, Romania, Russia. , United States of America, South Africa, South America, Switzerland and Hungary. In 2005 the definitive return to Florence with another, great, personal challenge in mind: opening a modern art gallery, at eighty years of age. , in via del Sole 6-8r, in the historic center of Florence.
