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Vincenzo Pinto (1870-1939), descendant of an ancient family of Vietri majolica makers, has been active in Vietri sul Mare since the end of the nineteenth century. In 1910 he took over the faenzera of the "Pizzicara" family, already rented by him under the name "ICAM" (Industria Ceramiche Artistiche Meridionali), where he produced everyday ceramics of the type known as "Sicilian stuff". Read the full biography

Vincenzo Pinto (1870-1939), descendant of an ancient family of Vietri majolica makers, has been active in Vietri sul Mare since the end of the nineteenth century. In 1910 he took over the faenzera of the "Pizzicara" family, already rented by him under the name "ICAM" (Industria Ceramiche Artistiche Meridionali), where he produced everyday ceramics of the type known as "Sicilian stuff". After having created numerous and important ceramic panels for public and religious buildings at the beginning of the 1920s, assisted by his sons Giovanni and Raffaele, he began a vast artistic production. In 1933 Vincenzo Pinto participated with some of his ceramics in the II Salernitana Art Exhibition. In the early Thirties he opened his laboratory to some exponents of the so-called "German Colony" of Vietri including Irene Kowaliska and Barbara Margarethe Thewalt who opened her own studio within the "ICAM". At the beginning of the thirties the factory was directed by prof. Renato Rossi. In 1937 some of his ceramics were exhibited at the VII National Crafts Exhibition in Florence. He died in Vietri Marina in 1939