Giacomo Grosso

Self-Portrait (1931)

"Supremo convegno" (1887)

“La Nuda” (1896) Galleria civica d'arte moderna , Turin

Arturo Toscanini (1916)

Giacomo Grosso (born May 23, 1860 in Cambiano , Piedmont-Sardinia ; died January 14, 1938 in Turin ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Giacomo Grosso was born into a large family. He attended the seminar in Giaveno and studied painting at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino . In 1885 he married Carolina Bertana and they had two children. From 1889 worked as a teacher at the Albertina, among his students were Carlo Gaudina , Romolo Bernardi and Felice Carena . In 1926, Leonardo Bistolfi organized an exhibition for him with 54 works in Milan. A solo exhibition in Turin in 1936 drew 120,000 visitors in fifteen days.

During the fascism in Italy in 1929 he was appointed senator at his own request . He received various state medals.

Grosso portrayed a number of famous contemporaries in a classic manner, such as Pope Benedict XV. , Giovanni Agnelli , Arturo Toscanini and Giacomo Puccini . He was also known for provocative eroticism, for example he caused a scandal at the Venice Biennale in 1895 with the picture Supremo convegno (The highest gathering) (the picture was later lost in a transport accident) and in 1896 with the Nuda act .

literature

Bernd Curt Kreplin : Grosso, Giacomo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 106-108 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
E. De Amicis: Gli anni della fame di un pittore celebre. La Blouse, Florence 1906.
Tiziana Musi: Grosso, Giacomo. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 60: Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2003.
Robert Fleck, The Venice Biennale: A History of the 20th Century , Philo Fine Arts, Hamburg, 2009, pp. 28–41. ISBN 978-3-86572-655-1

Web links

Commons : Giacomo Grosso - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Giacomo Grosso in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Entry in the Senatori dell'Italia fascista database of the Historical Archives of the Italian Senate

Individual evidence

↑ The basis was category 21, which named people as possible senators who paid more than 3,000 lire in direct taxes in three consecutive years. At Grosso, this was the case for both income and property, as can be seen from the certificate from the tax office ( Fascicolo personale PDF, pp. 5-6).

personal data
SURNAME	Grosso, Giacomo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cambiano
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1938
Place of death	Turin

[1] The basis was category 21, which named people as possible senators who paid more than 3,000 lire in direct taxes in three consecutive years. At Grosso, this was the case for both income and property, as can be seen from the certificate from the tax office ( Fascicolo personale PDF, pp. 5-6).