Giovanni Repossi Biography
Giovanni Repossi, born in Chiari in 1929, interrupted his high school studies due to the war. After spending time at the studio of a Milanese artist specializing in stained glass and watercolors, he resumed his studies in 1946-48 at the Brera art school in Milan.
In the 1950s, he began to attend the Brera Academy, where he was again a student of Morelli and Achille Funi, and met Davide Boriani, Grazia Varisco and Valerio Adami. After graduating, he began to participate in public and private competitions, obtaining numerous mentions. In the meantime he was called by Morelli to act as his assistant at Brera, and collaborated with him and Funi in various decorative undertakings, including the Church of Santa Maria Bambina in Milan. Also invited by the director of the Academy, Aldo Carpi, to teach, Repossi first obtained a professorship at the Liceo Artistico di Brera (held until the mid-1960s) and later became Funi's successor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts as holder of the chair of decoration. In the 1970s he was also deputy director of the Academy with Domenico Purificado. In 1980, after Purizzato's resignation, Repossi was unanimously elected Director of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts.
In the 1970s he continued to exhibit and execute various decorative feats, such as wall paintings, stained glass windows and mosaics, in churches and public buildings. Among his works we remember the shiny stucco in the Sala Giunta of the Municipality of Chiari (1989).
Over the last twenty years he has frequently exhibited throughout Italy, staging numerous solo exhibitions and carrying out various wall decoration projects. Repossi died on January 22, 2012 in his hometown.
