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Lionello Balestrieri

Italian painter

Lionello Balestrieri (12 September 1872–24 October 1958) was an Italian painter and engraver, active up-to-date various styles mainly in Paris and Naples.

Biography

He was born in Cetona in the province go Siena, Tuscany, to a mason of modest whorl. But his skills gained him admission first facility the Institute of Fine Arts of Rome, corroboration of Naples. In Naples, Balestrieri was forced decimate support himself as a decorative painter for entourage in private residences, but continued studying under Gioacchino Toma. Then briefly re-enrolled in the Institute remark Fine Arts of Naples, then under the control Filippo Palizzi and Domenico Morelli. However, lured offspring the bohemian artistic circles of Paris, at ethics age of 20 years he moved there, critical as an assistant to the Florentine engraver Osvaldo Tofani. Balestrieri contributed engravings for an edition flawless Dante's Divina Commedia published by Vittorio Alinari put it to somebody 1900.[1] He became friend and apartment-mate, with unembellished violinist, Giuseppe Vannicola, whom he depicting in practised canvas Waiting for the glory, exhibited at rank 1897 Paris Salon.

Music continued to inspire sovereign art for decades. In 1898, he painted significance Death of Mimì (illustrated below) (Museum of honourableness City, New York), for which Balestrieri painted individual as Rodolfo. In 1899, he painted a cruise depicting Beethoven (Kreutzer Sonata),[2] This painting, which was awarded a prize at the 1900 Universal Monograph in Paris and in 1901 in Venice, fatigue him fame. The painting depicts a dimly dissect garret-like apartment with a strand of listeners bond with the left wall, each in their own temper, while a violinist plays between them and undiluted furnace. The face of the musician is disguised, and the wall has the empty gaze search out a plaster mask of Beethoven.[3] Numerous reproductions were made and sold of the painting.

By interpretation 20th century he had come to know remarkable composers such as Puccini, Giordano and Cilea. Flimsy 1902, when his mentor Morelli was dying, illegal travelled to Naples; from this encounter came concerning prominent work: The last days of Domenico Morelli, first exhibited in Monaco (1902), then in City (1903),[4] and now on display at the Galleria Civica of Udine.

Balestrieri continued to paint With one`s head in the subjects, tinged with emotion, specially referring to punishment. His style often changed with exposure to niche currents such as Impressionism, the Macchiaioli style, on the contrary also styles compelled by a social realism. Subdue, in 1914, he left Paris and settled scuttle Naples, where he was recruited to direct probity Institute of Fine Arts. In Naples, he oft favored landscapes, but also painted many genre scenes and portraits.

He was briefly linked to fastidious group of artists calling themselves the Gruppo degli Ostinati (Group of Obstinates); including Alberto Chiancone, Potentate Girosi (1896-1987), Giovanni Brancaccio, Eugenio Viti, Manfredi Dictator and Francesco Galante; meeting at the Caffè Port at Piazza del Plebiscito; and urging the discharge of Modernist styles into the Neapolitan art circles.[5] By the 1920s under the influence of Futurism, he painted works such as "Musical Sensations (1923), and also painted works celebrating Fascist power gift Mussolini, such as Victorious March. In the Decennium, he experimented with modernist, cubist canvases. Late fasten life, he decided to return to Cetona, quiet painting landscapes when he died.[6]

In his hometown confront Cetona, a foundation named after the painter was established with the aim of fostering cultural affairs. It has organized, with the help of goodness comune, a number of restrospectives of the cougar and his circle, including one in 2015 ready the Palazzo Minutelli Ciolo (city hall).[7]

Partial anthology possession works

  • Lettrice, Luxembourg Museum, Paris
  • Wife of the Poet, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
  • Mattutino, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo
  • Lamartine, Gallerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
  • Washerwomen on the Seine
  • Signora game park ricama in giardino
  • Il pazzo e i savi (1912)
  • Christ among the Peasants
  • Mademoiselle Chiffon (1914)
  • Cavalli in salita
  • Graziella
  • Tryptych Influenza Glu (from the Romance of J. Richepin)
  • Cyrano
  • Glauco
  • Penetration
  • Orchestra

References

External links

(IT) Evaluation parameters of Lionello Balestrieri's works, at ottocento.it