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Carlo and Mirella Sbisà are two artists from Trieste who began an artistic collaboration after their marriage in 1943. They began to conceive and create splendid ceramics which were registered with the CSM (Carlo Mirella Sbisà) brand during the war and post-war years. Read the full biography

Carlo and Mirella Sbisà are two artists from Trieste who began an artistic collaboration after their marriage in 1943. They began to conceive and create splendid ceramics which were registered with the CSM (Carlo Mirella Sbisà) brand during the war and post-war years. Their works were exhibited in 1950 at the Venice Biennale and in the same year they participated in the Faenza National Ceramics Competition.
Carlo Sbisà, born in Trieste on 25 May 1899, was a painter and sculptor who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In addition to creating paintings, in the 1930s and 1940s he created numerous frescoes, for example in the small church of the Psychiatric Hospital of Trieste, in the Casa del Combattente and in the Protti Gallery. Sbisà died in Trieste in 1964.
Mirella Schott, born in Trieste in 1921, was a painter and ceramist who loved art from a young age. In fact, it was Carlo Sbisà who introduced her to the study of painting. In 1943, Mirella married Carlo. She participated with her works in the Venice Biennale in 1948 and 1964. From 1960, she dedicated herself to teaching at the Free School of Etching, founded by her husband Carlo. Mirella died in Trieste in 2015.