Dominique Frassati

Dominique Frassati at his easel in Oran

Musicians in the park

Dominique Frassati (born March 29, 1896 in Corte ( Corsica ), † July 10, 1947 ibid) was a French portrait , genre and oriental painter and museum curator.

He was born in Corte and grew up there until August 1914, when he volunteered for military service during the First World War . After a gas attack, he almost lost his eyesight and suffered from his lungs. At the end of the war, his uncle, the Argentine landowner Santos Manfredi, brought him to Argentina , where he recovered thanks to medical care. His uncle planned to entrust him with the management of an agricultural property, but Dominique Frassati returned to Europe in 1920. He settled in Paris but returned to his hometown of Corte in 1923. In order to be able to live from his painting, he created shop window decorations and posters for sporting events.

In 1923 he went to Algeria . He stayed in Oran for five years , where he painted portraits, landscapes, street scenes and genre paintings. In 1928 he returned to Corte. He studied from 1929 to 1930 in Paris at the Académie Julian with Paul Albert Laurens (1870–1934). On June 11, 1929 he married Élise Ansidei, mother of three children. In 1934 he returned to Corsica and moved to Ajaccio . In June 1936 he was appointed curator of the Musée Fesch there to succeed François Corbellini . In September 1937 he became the curator of the museums of the city of Ajaccio. During the Second World War , he brought the museum collections to safety in a crypt in the Imperial Chapel.

A street in Ajaccio was named after Dominique Frassati.

literature

• Pierre Claude Giansily: La peinture à Ajaccio, 1890–1950. Bassoul, Canavaggio, Frassati. Colonna éditions, Alata 2008, ISBN 978-2-915922-21-9 .

Web links

Commons : Dominique Frassati  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the Musée Fesch
• Works on artnet