De Dragon Vittore Grubicy Biography
Vittore Grubicy de Dragon (1851 - 1920) was an Italian painter, engraver and art critic, belonging to the artistic movement of Divisionism.
He was born in Milan, the son of a Hungarian baron and a noblewoman from Lodi. Starting in 1870, he moved to England where he worked as an intermediary in the world of contemporary art.
Subsequently, he ran an art gallery in Milan together with his brother Alberto, where he promoted works by pointillist artists. In 1884, following a trip to Holland, he dedicated himself to painting as a self-taught artist, progressively developing a pointillist technique through an intuitive and emotional approach. In 1889, leaving the commercial activity to his brother, Vittore concentrated exclusively on painting and on his work as a critic and publicist. Among his favorite places to paint were the Scalve Valley, Lake Lecco, Liguria, Venice and above all Miazzina - on the heights of Lake Maggiore - where he often stayed from 1886, also hosted by the painter Achille Tominetti, linked to Grubicy Gallery. In 1891, Vittore participated in the First Brera Triennial as a pointillist artist and, following this, he published numerous articles and essays to defend the reasons for the movement. In 1920, Vittore died at his home in Milan.
