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Giovanni Korompay (1904-1988), born in Venice in 1904, was an Italian painter.

After being a student of Ettore Tito, he distanced himself from the stylistic code of the master, to join Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurism in 1922, creating his first abstract works such as "Locomotive Noise".

He was a propagandist of Futurism but maintaining a personal line with the movement and not sharing some of Marinetti's political positions. In his early works, he favored geometric composition while between the 1920s and 1930s he also created collages, assemblages, furniture, ensemble furnishings and futuristic wooden sculptures, also dedicating himself to a series of aeropaintings.

During the 1930s, he was invited to participate in several official exhibitions, exhibiting in 1933 at the 1st National Futurist Art Exhibition in Rome and at the Roman Quadrennials of 1939 and 1943.

Throughout his life, along with his activity as a painter, he also worked as a journalist. Read the full biography

Giovanni Korompay Biography

Giovanni Korompay (1904-1988), born in Venice in 1904, was an Italian painter.

After being a student of Ettore Tito, he distanced himself from the stylistic code of the master, to join Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurism in 1922, creating his first abstract works such as "Locomotive Noise".

He was a propagandist of Futurism but maintaining a personal line with the movement and not sharing some of Marinetti's political positions. In his early works, he favored geometric composition while between the 1920s and 1930s he also created collages, assemblages, furniture, ensemble furnishings and futuristic wooden sculptures, also dedicating himself to a series of aeropaintings.

During the 1930s, he was invited to participate in several official exhibitions, exhibiting in 1933 at the 1st National Futurist Art Exhibition in Rome and at the Roman Quadrennials of 1939 and 1943.

Throughout his life, along with his activity as a painter, he also worked as a journalist. After moving from Ferrara to Bologna, where he tried together with a few to reorganize a local futurist group, he officially approached abstractionism in 1954, participating together with Dorazio, Turcato and Carla Accardi in the exhibition of abstractionists in Macerata.

At the 1968 Venice Biennale, a large retrospective was dedicated to him and he was awarded the international critics' prize, thus achieving fame.

During the last years of his life, his production moved in the direction of geometric rigor, creating a significant quantity of etchings. He died in Rovereto in 1988.