(Trieste, 1879 – Pavia, 1937). Between 1899 and 1901 he lived in Vienna and Munich, where he became close to the Viennese Secession and became acquainted with Central European expressionist tendencies. Read the full biography
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(Trieste, 1879 – Pavia, 1937). Between 1899 and 1901 he lived in Vienna and Munich, where he became close to the Viennese Secession and became acquainted with Central European expressionist tendencies. In 1905 in Paris he studied the impressionists and post-impressionists, taking a particular interest in Cézanne, Gauguin and Matisse. Returning to Trieste, he participated in the First World War. Around 1920 he decided to move to Milan where he met Carrà, Sironi and Funi. His painting of this period, reflecting the group's tendency to recover the dictates of the Renaissance pictorial tradition, is characterized by careful plastic and volumetric relationships and by themes usually referable to the family and bourgeois life: female portraits, still lifes, figures of children. His best-known painting, Women at the Café (1924, Gallery of Modern Art, Milan), portrays two melancholy-looking figures in a provincial café. In his works we can glimpse the effort with which the painter had to adapt to the plasticity and to the third dimension desired by the group, to finally reach an interesting compromise between the enamelling of the surfaces and the swelling of the relief. In the 1930s the painter adopted a softer brushstroke, recovering an impressionist style.
