Remo Wolf Biography
Remo Wolf (Trento, 29 February 1912 – Trento, 27 January 2009) was an Italian engraver. Trentino artist and internationally renowned engraver, born in Trento in 1912, he dedicated himself starting around the 1930s to the art of engraving, a technique he preferred and which would accompany him throughout his long and intense artistic life. He is particularly interested in the xylographic technique, producing a corpus of works that includes thousands of subjects, sacred and profane, ironic, often dedicated to the mountains. He was present at the Venetian Biennials of 1942, 1950, 1954 and 1956 and at the Biennials of Engraving in Reggio Emilia, Cittadella, Oderzo and Carpi, at the Suzzara Prize, at the Biella Prize and at the Rome National Chalcography exhibitions held in Italy and abroad. Collateral but no less interesting is the corpus of exlibric works that accompanies the artist's major production, composed of approximately 750 subjects commissioned by well-known Italian and foreign collectors: how can we forget the sheets dedicated to Mario de Filippis or the very first works from the 1930s dedicated to Gianni Mantero, with strong war influences. With a Nordic and almost expressionistic style, with nods that recall Dürer, he stands out for his originality and ironic streak, while in his oil production he almost seems to want to violently distance himself by approaching the Mediterranean taste for warm and material colours. He attended the Magisterium in Florence and Rome, obtaining a teaching qualification. In 1932 he was called up to arms. On November 4, 1942, at the end of the Second Battle of El Alamein, he was taken prisoner (The period of the cage) and returned to Italy in 1946. In 1949 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 1952 he founded the Associazione Incisori Veneti with Giovanni Giuliani, Virgilio Tramontin and Tranquillo Marangoni and in that period he organized exhibitions at the Circolo Bronzetti in Trento. Since 1976, with the conclusion of his teaching, he has dedicated himself entirely to the work of an engraver, especially in the xylographic field which he has approached as a self-taught person since his beginnings. He disappeared in Trento in January 2009.
