Gino Severini

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Gino Severini in the Malborough Gallery, London, early 1913

Gino Severini (born April 7, 1883 in Cortona , Arezzo province , † February 26, 1966 in Paris ) was an Italian painter of Futurism .

life and work

Severini moved to Rome in 1899 and attended evening courses at the Villa Medici . In 1901 he met Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla . In 1906 he went to Paris and had connections with Amedeo Modigliani and the Cubists . In 1910 he signed the “Futuristic Manifesto” and the “Technical Manifesto of Futuristic Painting”. Together with Boccioni , Carra and Russolo , he showed a futuristic exhibition at the beginning of 1912 in Paris, Galerie Bernheim Jeune, in Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm and in London, Sackville Gallery. In 1913 he was represented again in Berlin with two works at the First German Autumn Salon , his portrait of the futurist leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti caused the intended scandal. In 1917 he had an exhibition at the Gallery 291 of Alfred Stieglitz in New York. In 1918 he worked on De Stijl magazine .

His style was strongly influenced by impressionism and cubism. In 1921 he published the book du cubisme au classicisme . Gino Severini was a participant in documenta 1 (1955) and documenta III in 1964 in Kassel . One of his works is called "Still Life with Lacerba Magazine". Some of Severini's works are exhibited in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris .

Severini received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

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SURNAME Severini, Gino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of futurism
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cortona , Arezzo Province
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1966
Place of death Paris