Nerino Nannetti Biography
Neri Nannetti (Florence, 1889 - Florence, 1962) was an Italian artist and writer, great-grandson of the famous painter Giovanni Fattori and belonging to a family linked to the Tuscan artistic environment.
As early as 1912, Neri joined the futurist movement and collaborated on the magazine L'Italia futurista together with his brother Vieri, five years younger, contributing with free words, drawings, cartoons and caricatures. In 1919, the two brothers participated in the Great National Futurist Exhibition in Milan, presenting several of their works.
Neri, like his brother Vieri, was a multifaceted artist, engaged in both writing and drawing, but unlike the latter, who abandoned figurative art after the Futurist period, Neri continued to express it in his chosen activity.
In 1920, Neri was secretary of the Florentine Fascio, but later dissociated himself, together with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in controversy with the excessively conservative orientation taken by the national movement. Later, in 1923, he associated himself with Tipografia Bengaglia and founded the advertising studio Creazioni Nerino, engaging in the production of advertising sketches, wall signs, calendars, postcards and brochures that supported their author's futurist line.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Neri dedicated himself completely to his career as an advertising poster designer, illustrator and fabric decorator.
At the Primo Conti Foundation and Museum - Onlus in Fiesole, there is a Neri and Vieri Nannetti Fund which preserves collections of drawings, writings, letters and other documents of the two brothers.
