Antonio Fontanesi
Antonio Fontanesi (born February 23, 1818 in Reggio nell'Emilia , † April 17, 1882 in Turin ) was an Italian painter.
life and work
Fontanesi learned from landscape painters Prospero Minghetti and Vincenzo Carnevali and began painting landscapes and theatrical decorations in the 1840s. In 1848 he took part in the struggles for Italian independence in Milan (under Luciano Manara ), as well as briefly again in 1859 in Garibaldi's second war of independence in Bologna.
Fontanesi took on a variety of influences from other European countries in his painting. Fontanesi traveled to Geneva in 1849 , where he met Alexandre Calame and Charles-François Daubigny and stayed until 1865. In 1855 he met Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and Constant Troyon in Paris , where the world exhibition was at that time , and in 1861 he met the representatives of the Macchiaioli Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori in Florence . In 1863 he tried to settle in London, but went back to Florence because of a lack of commissions.
He received a professorship at the Academy in Lucca . From 1869 he lived in Turin, where he became a professor of landscape painting at the Accademia Albertina. He had a great influence on Piedmontese painting there and was highly regarded in his day, with exhibitions in Lyon, Turin, Milan, Florence, Genoa and Bologna.
He traveled to England, where he was inspired by the works of John Constable and William Turner . From 1875 to 1878 he was in Japan (Tokyo) at the invitation of the Japanese government during the Meiji period at the newly founded art school (Kōbu Bijutsu Gakkō). The Japanese had decided to use Italian artists to learn western art techniques ( Yōga ) as a model. There he taught drawing and oil painting, Vincenzo Ragusa sculpture and Giovanni Cappelletti took over the preparatory classes. Fontanesi's most important student was Asai Chū , in the photo in the middle of the back row, half-covered. An illness forced him to return to Europe in 1878.
In 1878 he was in the Dauphiné , where he made friends with François-Auguste Ravier (1814–1895).
A large number of his works are in the "Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea (GAM)" in Turin and are also exhibited there.
gallery
Walk to the pasture, Galleria Sabauda, Turin
Alla Fontana, Galleria Nazionale d Arte Moderna, Rome
Alone in spring
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miwa Hideo (Ed.): Nihon no bijutsu No. 350. Ikubundo Verlag, 1995. p. 60.
literature
- Marziano Bernardi: Antonio Fontanesi (Il maestri della pittura italiana dell'ottocento). Mondadori, Milan 1933.
- Marco Calderini : Antonio Fontanesi. Pittore paësista . 2nd edition Silvestrelli & Cappelletto, Turin 1925.
- Michelangelo Masciotta: Antonio Fontanesi . In: Hermain Bazin u. a. (Ed.): Kindler's Malereilexikon . DirectMedia, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89853-922-9 (1 DVD-ROM; formerly: Dtv, Munich 1982).
- Sadao Tsuneko et al. a .: Discovering the Arts of Japan. A Historical Overview. Kodansha International, Tokyo 2003, ISBN 4-7700-2939-X .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontanesi, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reggio nell'Emilia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1882 |
| Place of death | Turin |