Enzo Morelli Biography
Enzo Morelli (Bagnacavallo, 5 December 1896 – Bogliaco del Garda, 28 January 1976) was an Italian painter and teacher. From his native Romagna Morelli was forced, due to family vicissitudes, to move to Milan where he spent most of his life. Here he studied at the Umanitaria, worked and was then hired by Ricordi as a student and assistant of LA Mauzan. Since 1914 the great war, as an artilleryman, at the front. He was wounded and admitted to the Military Hospital of Mestre in 1916, together with another artillery soldier, Romeo Fontana, his age, of whom he painted a beautiful pencil portrait, and with whom he remained a friend all his life. After the war, from the drawings in the VI Army newspaper, he moved on to collaborate as an illustrator with various publishers, continuing his pictorial activity. In 1926 he won a competition for the fresco decoration of the Conciliation Hall in the Town Hall of Assisi. In 1931 he returned to Milan. Since the first Italian Twentieth Century Exhibition he participated in the major national and international exhibitions, obtaining recognition and prizes. Enzo Morelli passionately taught painting at the Brera Academy and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
