Osvaldo Licini (Monte Vidon Corrado, 22 March 1894 – Monte Vidon Corrado, 11 October 1958) was an Italian artist and painter.
His training began in 1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he met Giorgio Morandi, Mario Bacchelli, Giacomo Vespignani and Severo Pozzati. His interests immediately focused on the French avant-garde, while he cultivated reading the first catalog of Impressionism. Read the full biography
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Osvaldo Licini (Monte Vidon Corrado, 22 March 1894 – Monte Vidon Corrado, 11 October 1958) was an Italian artist and painter.
His training began in 1908 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he met Giorgio Morandi, Mario Bacchelli, Giacomo Vespignani and Severo Pozzati. His interests immediately focused on the French avant-garde, while he cultivated reading the first catalog of Impressionism. In 1916 he went to Paris, where his family has resided since 1902. Here he attended the premiere of the famous "Parade" at the Théâtre de Châtelet on 18 May 1917, supporting the works of Picasso and Cocteau whom he met in Paris with youthful enthusiasm. Cafè de la Rotonde, together with Kisling, Zborowski and Modigliani. The Parisian period, which lasted until 1926, saw Luccini alternate between 1920 and 1923 in St. Tropez and the rest of the Côte d'Azur.
After participating in twentieth-century exhibitions in Italy, he married the Swedish painter Nanny Hellstrom in 1925 before returning to Italy to retire in the Marche town of Monte Vidon Corrado. Although several trips to Paris, Sweden and other European countries have not yet been recorded, he lived here as a hermit until his death.
Until 1930, according to the autographs, the different periods of his paintings can be divided as follows: Fantastic Primitivism 1913-1915 - War Plot 1915-1920 (almost all destroyed) - Realism 1920-1930. Subsequently, until around 1940, Luccini was interested in abstraction and destroyed most of the canvases of the previous period with harsh self-criticism. Indeed, he wrote to Marjorie in 1933: "In two years, however, I have suddenly changed course. For many good reasons, I am quite sure that I no longer paint with my life."
In 1934 the Italian abstract group was formed at the Mirrione Gallery, composed of Licini, Fontana, Reggiani, Soldati, Veronesi, Melotti and Gihiringhelli. Their public publication coincided with the "First Collective Exhibition of Italian Abstract Art" in March 1935 at Casorati and Paolucci's studio in Turin. Licini traveled to Paris in November, where he met Kandinsky, Magnelli, Herbin and Kupka, among others, to read Carlo Belli, the inspirer, proponent and theorist of early Italian abstraction books are vital.
After the Second World War, the artist reappeared in Venice in 1948 for the XXIV Biennale. In the 25th edition he presents the famous nine paintings of Amalasunte in the hermitage of Monte Vidon Corrado, while he became mayor of the town. The most intense and beautiful period of Licini's work since 1950, he now intends to complete many studies written on the card. In 1958 Apollonio held a solo exhibition at the XXIX Biennale, which laid the foundation for the growing success of his art. With 41 works on display, Luccini wins the International Painting Prize. Corrado died in Monte Vidon on 11 October 1958, shortly after visiting the Pisanello exhibition in Verona.
