Lamberto Vitali Biography
Lamberto Vitali was born in 1896. He studied accounting and took care of the family trading company (import of various products, especially coffee). He began to be interested in contemporary art in the 1920s both as a collector and as a critic on the pages of important newspapers and magazines, such as «Domus» and «Emporium», which he directed from 1938. A personality with eclectic interests, he was one of the leading experts in modern engraving and the history of photography, he published monographs on Morandi, Marino Marini and other artists, he organized important exhibitions such as those in Milan on the Macchiaioli and Van Gogh. He died in Milan , where he has always lived, in 1992. For Einaudi he published the volumes The graphic work of Giorgio Morandi (1964, enlarged edition 1989), A fin de siècle photographer. Count Primoli (1968, enlarged edition 1981), Il Risorgimento in photography (1979). Also for Einaudi he edited Delacroix's Diary and the edition of the Letters of the Macchiaioli (1953).
