Giovanni Petucco Biography
Giovanni Petucco was born in Nove, in the province of Vicenza, on 29 August 1910. He began working in the brickyards of his city while still a teenager to pay for his evening painting courses. He graduated from the Art Institute of Nove, a student of Roberto Rosati, and subsequently completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1942, at the end of his studies in Venice, he returned to Nove and found work as a teacher at the School of Ceramics, directed by Andrea Parini and in 1945 he founded, in partnership with Andrea Tolio and Gino Cuman, the factory for the production of artistic ceramics "Petucco & Tolio", based in via Molini 44, from whose furnaces come ornaments, lamp bases and decorative panels with a traditional and modern flavor and a series of stylized characters depicting priests and prelates with an ironic and popular flavour. At the same time, Giovanni Petucco created some unique pieces, often of a religious nature, which he presented at various editions of the Venice Art Biennials and the Milan Triennials. Giovanni Petucco died in Nove in 1961 and in 1962 an exhibition was dedicated to him at the Art Institute of Nove.
