Bruno Cassinari

Bruno Cassinari
Bruno Cassinari
	Bruno Cassinari in his studio in Vence photographed by Paolo Monti in 1958
Born	29 October 1912; Piacenza, Italy
Died	26 March 1992 (aged 79); Milan, Italy
Education	Brera Academy
Known for	Sculpture, painting
Movement	Cubism

Bruno Cassinari (29 October 1912 – 26 March 1992) was an Italian painter and sculptor, active in a style mixing cubist and expressionist elements.

Biography

Cassinari was born in Piacenza. He attended the local art school but eventually decided to move to Milan, where he studied painting at the Brera Academy under Aldo Carpi. In 1946, he helped found the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti, an association aiming to restore optimism to post-war Italian art. Other members were Renato Birolli, Renato Guttuso, Ennio Morlotti, Leoncillo Leonardi, and Alberto Viani.[1]

In 1949, Cassinari was invited by Pablo Picasso to exhibit his work at the Antibes Museum of Art. In 1952 he won the Grand Prize for Painting at the 26th Venice Biennale with his Cubist-inspired paintings The Lemon and Still Life in Pink. In the 1960s Cassinari briefly relocated to Venice. In 1986 he was recognized for his contributions to Italian painting with a large-scale retrospective of his work in Milan. Cassinari died in Milan on March 26, 1992, about one year after the passing of his wife, Enrica.

Bruno Cassinari's studio, Venice, 1963

References

Chilvers, Ian; Glaves-Smith, John (2009). A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2. ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 250. ISBN 9780199239658. Retrieved 28 February 2016.

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[1] Chilvers, Ian; Glaves-Smith, John (2009). A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art (2. ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 250. ISBN 9780199239658. Retrieved 28 February 2016.