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Luigi Pagan (1907 – 1980) was a landscape painter who made the city of Chioggia one of his main themes. A characteristic of his painting is to touch on impressionist and expressionist values ​​with unique and personal lights and atmospheres. Read the full biography

Luigi Pagan (1907 – 1980) was a landscape painter who made the city of Chioggia one of his main themes. A characteristic of his painting is to touch on impressionist and expressionist values ​​with unique and personal lights and atmospheres. The technical mastery is combined with suggestions that the painted landscape emanates. He was born into a family of fishermen and with the death of his father during World War I he had to look after his mother and two brothers. He studied at a boarding school for war orphans, pursuing his passion for art. Various study and work experiences brought him to Turin where he came into contact with the artistic tradition of the place. However, the real artistic training is completed in Venice at the Carmini School of Art and the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. He becomes the singer of a heroic epic which Comisso then narrates through art and poetry. Already in the 1950s and 1960s he achieved gratifying successes, also exhibiting in the United States and South Africa. His paintings are hosted at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice. In 2008, one hundred years after his birth, his Chioggia dedicated an important retrospective exhibition to him at the civic museum.