Giovanni Costetti

Self-Portrait (1920)

Portrait of Mai Sewell Costetti

Giovanni Costetti (born July 13, 1874 in Reggio nell'Emilia ; died September 3, 1949 in Settignano ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Giovanni Costetti came from a family of artisans, he was a younger brother of the painter Romeo Costetti (1871–1957). Costetti attended the drawing school for artisans in Reggio. In 1895 he did his two years military service in Turin , where he dealt with the work of Antonio Fontanesi and with the Pre-Raphaelites . In 1897 he worked as a copyist in Bern and won a three-year Sanguinetti scholarship, in 1898 he attended Giovanni Fattori's nude school in Rome. In 1900 he went to Paris with Ardengo Soffici , where he orientated himself towards the Symbolists . Back in Florence, he illustrated a 1902 edition of the Divina Commedia .

Costetti was friends with Gabriele d'Annunzio . He wrote reviews and poems for the La Tempra magazine published in Pistoia by Renato Fondi between 1914 and 1920 and contributed to engravings for the magazines Il Leonardo by Giovanni Papini , Vita d'Arte , L'Eroica , Il Cimento and La Voce . Costetti mainly painted portraits in the neo-renaissance style . In the 1920s he also painted religious subjects. In 1923 Costetti married the ceramicist Mary Elizabeth Clare (Mai) Sewell (1892–1975), a granddaughter of the Norwegian politician Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug .

Costetti rejected the fascist cultural policy and in 1925 signed the Antimanifesto , initiated by Benedetto Croce , which was directed against the Manifesto of Italian intellectuals in support of fascism written by Giovanni Gentile . In 1926 he became a member of the Novecento artist group . In 1937 he had a major exhibition in Oslo . Costetti lived in the Netherlands from 1940 to 1948 .

Writings, exhibitions (selection)

L'idolo; dramma lirico . Florence: Vallecchi, 1921
Vingt-six dessins by Giovanni Costetti . London: Arts & Crafts Pub., 1929
Vita e morte; poetry e disegni . Florence: Vallecchi, 1950
Grafica di Giovanni Costetti . Reggio Emilia: Tipo-lito Tecnostampa, 1976
Giovanni Costetti . Exhibition Comune di Reggio Emilia, Civici musei. Milan: Mazzotta, 1983
Giuseppe Paccagnini (Ed.): Giovanni Costetti. Maestro del novecento italiano . Pistoia: Edizioni Can Bianco Niccolai, 1998
Giuseppe Paccagnini (Ed.): Giovanni Costetti. opere dal 1901 al 1949 . Montecatini Terme: Edizione Arte del XX Secolo, 2004

literature

Giorgio Patrizi: Costetti, Giovanni. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 30: Cosattini – Crispolto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1984.
Sandrina Bistoletti: Costetti, Giovanni . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 490 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Giovanni Costetti in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Sandrina Bistoletti: Costetti, Romeo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 491.
^ Sanguinetti scholarship, information without further explanation from Sandrina Bistoletti, 1998. Angelo Sanguinetti was a textile manufacturer for organza , the scholarship (legato) was awarded regularly by the city of Reggio.

personal data
SURNAME	Costetti, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 13, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reggio nell'Emilia
DATE OF DEATH	September 3, 1949
Place of death	Settignano

[1] Sandrina Bistoletti: Costetti, Romeo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 21, Saur, Munich a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-598-22761-2 , p. 491.

[2] Sanguinetti scholarship, information without further explanation from Sandrina Bistoletti, 1998. Angelo Sanguinetti was a textile manufacturer for organza , the scholarship (legato) was awarded regularly by the city of Reggio.