Alfredo Savini Biography
Alfredo Savini was a well-known Italian painter originally from Bologna, born on 3 April 1868 and died on 28 October 1924 in Verona. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and in 1900 he was appointed director of the Gian Bettino Cignaroli Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, after passing a competition.
He held this role until 1924, the year of his death, continuing in the meantime to dedicate himself to his artistic career. One of his greatest merits was having innovated the teaching methods of the Cignaroli Academy, creating the "open-air school" in which students could come into contact with nature.
Some of his most famous students were Ettore Beraldini, Antonio Nardi, Guido Trentini, Giuseppe Zancolli, Alessandro Zenatello and Angelo Zamboni.
Savini's painting, characterized by a careful study of the environment and colours, was placed within the Italian historical-artistic current known as Verismo.
He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1905 with the painting "Fishermen in Garda" and after the First World War he committed himself to the cultural and artistic growth of the city of Verona, collaborating on exhibitions such as the Pro Assistenza Civica Art Exhibition of 1918 and the 'Cispadana Exhibition of Fine Arts of soldier and discharged artists of 1919.
In 1925, at the thirty-ninth national art exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts of Verona, the first room was dedicated to him. In 1974, a commemorative exhibition was organized in his honor in the monumental complex of Baraccano, in Bologna.
