Amilcare Rambelli Biography
Amilcare Rambelli was born on 21 August 1924 in Milan, which he left in 1943 at the height of the drama of the war. interrupting his studies at the Brera Art School to take refuge in Abruzzo, his parents' homeland. He returned to Milan in 1945, where he created caricatures for “Illustrazione Italiana” and then book covers and illustrations, above all, around 1949, for the Baldini and Castoldi publishing house in Milan. In the background, the lively climate of the immediate post-war period, animated by the desire to reconnect art to life, to history, to its problems, which leaves its mark on his interests and directs his future programs. He was especially interested in social issues, which would significantly influence his painting in the 1950s, when he lived again in Abruzzo, where he met Elisa, who became his partner and collaborator. He lived from 1950 to 1955 in Teramo, then in Castelmuovo Vomano, a town in that territory. In 1955 and 1957 he held two solo exhibitions in Rome, in the Galleria Marguttiana. First, in 1953 and 1954, he had exhibited in the Circolo Teramano, then, again in Teramo, in the Circolo della Stampa. He was also present in 1956 at the Marsica Prize in Avezzano and in 1957 at the Michetti Prize in Francavilla a Mare.
