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Giuseppe Gorni (Quistello, 27 March 1894 – Domodossola, 6 August 1975) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Giuseppe Gorni was born in Santa Lucia, a hamlet of the municipality of Quistello. Read the full biography

Giuseppe Gorni (Quistello, 27 March 1894 – Domodossola, 6 August 1975) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Giuseppe Gorni was born in Santa Lucia, a hamlet of the municipality of Quistello. His studies were directed towards technical schools, first in Padua, then in Bologna where he finally enrolled in the veterinary faculty of the local university. Called up to arms following the outbreak of World War I, as a second lieutenant, he was captured on the Isonzo front and interned in prison camps on Hungarian territory. It was here that he first devoted himself to painting and sculpture. After his imprisonment he returned to Bologna where he abandoned the University and in 1922 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. He returned to live in Quistello where he created murals on the buildings of Quistello and Nuvolato. He drew for Mino Maccari's Selvaggio. Giuseppe Gorni participated with the rank of major in World War II. After 8 September 1943 he fled to Switzerland where he was interned again. And as happened in Hungary he dedicated himself, after a few years of inactivity, to drawing and hollow sculpture. He interrupted his artistic production from 1953 to 1961 when he moved to Cinisello Balsamo where he directed the technical office of that municipality. Starting from the personal exhibition held at the Gianferrari gallery in Milan in 1965, and from the anthological exhibition at the Premio Suzzara in 1967, there were numerous exhibitions in which he was the protagonist until the exhibitions of 1972 at the Casa del Mantegna in Mantua and in 1975 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan . Giuseppe Gorni died in Domodossola on 6 August 1975.