Ernesta Oltremonti

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The only known photograph by Ernesta Oltremonti, published in Comœdia 1930, taken during her stay in Paris (1927–1931)

Ernesta Oltremonti (* 1899 in Venice , † 1982 in Rome ) was an Italian painter who worked in Venice until 1935, then in Rome until the late 1930s or early 1940s.

life and work

Ernesta Oltremonti was born as the first of three daughters to the Venetian nobleman Ernesta Veronese and the naval officer Arturo Oltremonti. She attended the Accademia di belle arti in her native Venice and the corresponding institutions in Florence and Rome . In 1920 she received the license to teach, the Diploma di abilitazione all'insegnamento .

She visited the studio of Emilio Notte (1891–1982) in Venice and took part in the Primaverile Fiorentina . In 1924, at the age of 25, she took part in the Venice Biennale for the first time . There she exhibited her painting Adamo ed Eva . She also took part in the Biennale in 1926, 1928 and 1930 and participated in almost all exhibitions at Ca 'Pesaro . From 1927 to 1931 she lived in Paris .

In 1935 she went to Rome with her mother and two sisters, where she had already exhibited at the Quadriennali of 1931, and where further exhibitions followed in 1935 and 1939. At the exhibitions organized by the fascists of the Associazione Nazionale Fascista Artiste e Laureate , it was just as rarely exhibited as at other events of this kind.

It seems like she stopped working in the early 1940s. It also never became part of an art movement or school. In some pictures Venice appears, as in her small-format work Il Redentore , in which she makes the church appear small and dark, while the lively is concentrated in the boats.

Ernesta Oltremonti taught in the second half of her life at the Liceo Artistico Ripetta in Rome, where she died in 1982. Her two single sisters lived with her. Her paintings are often only preserved in the photographs of the exhibition venues, especially the Biennale, the Ca 'Pesaro and the Roman Quadriennale, but where the originals have remained is unclear.

In 2014 some of her works were exhibited in Mirano , along with works by Maria Vinca , Giola Gandini and Gabriella Oreffice.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernesta Oltremonti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gabriella e le altre. Gabriella Oreffice, Maria Vinca, Ernesta Oltremonti, Giola Gandini , exhibition catalog, Mirano 2014, p. 18 f.
personal data
SURNAME Oltremonti, Ernesta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death Rome