Baldassarre Longoni Biography
Baldassarre Longoni (1876 - 1956) was an Italian painter who lived from the 19th to the 20th century and was considered a master of Divisionism.
Longoni studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, under the guidance of Pogliaghi and the inspiration of Vittore Grubicy. As soon as he began his artistic career in 1898, Milanese critics recognized him as one of the greatest artists of the time.
He painted portraits, landscapes and allegorical scenes, taking inspiration from Gaetano Previati and Giovanni Segantini. His works were exhibited in various exhibitions such as the Venice Biennales (1903, 1907, 1909) and the Munich Internationals (1905 and 1909), and won various prizes, including the Mylius prize in 1908 and the Principe Umberto prize in 1910 with the painting "Night".
In 1913, Longoni moved to Verona, where he taught at the Industrial School and the Cignaroli Academy until 1920, the year in which he distanced himself from the pointillist movement. Subsequently, he returned to Como, where he held several exhibitions, moving between Venice, Turin and Milan in the 1920s.
In the 1930s he dedicated himself completely to the study of traditional naturalism of Lombardy.
