Giovanni Beltrami (painter)

Beltrami's advertisement for the first publication of the literary supplement La Lettura (1900 or 1901)

Advertising poster for the Corriere della Sera

Giovanni Beltrami (born February 26, 1860 in Milan ; died January 31, 1926 there ) was an Italian painter and art critic.

Life

Giovanni Beltrami was a cousin of the architect Luca Beltrami . From 1878 he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera with Raffaele Casnedi , Bartolomeo Giuliano and Giuseppe Bertini and received several awards during his studies. His works were exhibited in Turin in 1902 at the Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna , and in 1903 and 1905 at the Biennale di Venezia . In 1911 he founded Buffa, Cantinotti and Zuccaro, a glass factory that satisfied contemporary tastes with Art Nouveau motifs . He received orders for the painting of the Milan City Hall , for windows in the Milan Cathedral and for a skylight construction in the Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome. Beltrami worked as a fresco artist in various church buildings in northern Italy.

Beltrami wrote reviews for the features section of the Corriere della Sera newspaper and for its La Lettura offshoot, founded in 1901 . After the death of the publisher Emilio Treves in 1916 the family made him co-editor of the magazine L'Illustrazione Italiana , in 1920 he took over the management of the Fratelli Treves publishing house .

Beltrami was a member of the Milan City Council.

literature

• Anton Kohler: Beltrami, Giovanni . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 8, Saur, Munich a. a. 1993, ISBN 3-598-22748-5 , pp. 552 f.
• Elda Fezzi:  Beltrami, Giovanni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 8:  Bellucci – Beregan. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1966.