Gino Rossi Biography
Gino Rossi was born in Venice in 1884. Starting from 1907, he made numerous trips to France, where he had the opportunity to come into contact with the post-impressionist current, proving particularly sensitive to the influence of Gauguin, van Gogh and Matisse. His artistic training, which resulted in an expressionistic manner all his own, may also have been influenced by his knowledge of the painting of the Viennese secessionists. In 1909, Rossi exhibited his works in Venice for the first time. However, the happy period of his artistic activity was interrupted by the war and subsequent imprisonment, experiences that are reflected in the landscape results and portraits created in that period. Returning to painting in 1919, Rossi began a more dramatic and frenetic pictorial research, while his Cubist experiences met his aspiration for greater formal constructiveness. In 1923, his mental stability, already tested by the harsh imprisonment and post-war difficulties, collapsed, leading him to interrupt all artistic activity and live a solitary and crazy life in conditions of extreme poverty. Rossi died in Treviso in 1947.
