Ulvi Liegi Biography
Ulvi Liegi, pseudonym of Luigi Moisé Levi (1859 - 1939), was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Livorno, where he spent the period of his artistic training. In the 1980s he moved to Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts, but also the "Macchiaioli" painters such as Giovanni Fattori and dedicated himself to painting from life.
Subsequently, he continued his training in Paris in 1886 and in London, where he exhibited at the First Italian Exhibition in 1888 and at the Universal Exposition of Paris in 1889. Despite this, he always maintained a strong link with Livorno, participating in the First Exhibition of Fine Arts in Livorno at Bagni Pancaldi in 1886.
He lived another Florentine period from 1895 and spent a year in the upper Valsugana area in 1906, before returning to Livorno in 1908. In the city he frequented the Caffè Bardi, a meeting place for artists, from 1909 to 1921, continuing to exhibit and immortalize numerous glimpses of the city in his work.
In all his works, he describes urban views and landscapes characterized by rapid brush strokes similar to those of Fattori and, later, by increasingly defined touches and intense and vibrant, although sometimes strident, colors and great attention to light.
In 1921, he was elected president of the "Gruppo Labronico", born the year before to take up the legacy of Fattori and Mario Puccini.
From 1921 to 1925, he exhibited at the Roman Biennials and then at the Venice Biennale from 1928 to 1936. In 1932, the Municipality of Livorno awarded him the gold medal for his activity as a cultural promoter.
