Giuseppe Romagnoni
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Giuseppe Romagnoni , as an artist also: Bepi Romagnoni (born November 21, 1930 in Milan , Italy , † July 19, 1964 in Villasimius near Cagliari in Sardinia ) was an Italian painter .
life and work
Bepi Romagnoni studied in Milan first at the Istituto Tecnico, then art at the Accademia di Brera until 1952. There he studied painting with Aldo Carpi . His fellow students included Mino Ceretti , Giuseppe Guerreschi , Gianfranco Ferroni , Giuseppe Banchieri and Tino Vaglieri . He later had joint exhibitions with some of them. His first exhibitions took place in 1952, 1954 and 1955 in the Galleria San Fedele in Milan and his first solo exhibition in 1955 in the Galleria Schettini in Milan. He studied the literature of Søren Kierkegaard , Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus intensively and was strongly influenced by existentialism .
In 1962 he was invited to take part in the Venice Biennale . In the same year he traveled to London and met Valerio Adami there , who invited him to exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art . In 1964, the year of his death, Romagnoni was a participant in documenta III in Kassel in the painting department .
After 1960 he mainly discovered the technique of collage for his mostly abstract compositions. In addition, he created numerous tempera paintings with a peculiar character of existentialist realism .
Literature and Sources
- documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
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| SURNAME | Romagnoni, Giuseppe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Romagnoni, Bepi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1964 |
| Place of death | Villasimius near Cagliari in Sardinia |