Luigi Chialiva

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Horses at the water trough

Luigi Chialiva (born March 2, 1841 in Lugano , † April 7, 1914 in Paris ) was a Swiss landscape and animal painter .

Life

Luigi Chialiva was born to wealthy parents Abbondio Chialiva and Luigia Tosi. After training from 1856 to 1858 at the higher vocational school in Zurich , he studied architecture at the Zurich Polytechnic under Gottfried Semper and graduated in 1861.

Around 1864 he decided to change his profession and moved to Milan, where he studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera with the landscape painter Carlo Mancini. After graduation, he specialized in animal and landscape painting and also dealt with etching. He took part in the Brera exhibitions in 1864, 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869, in which he received the Mylius Prize for Animal Painting in 1868. In 1867 he stayed in Paris for the first time on the occasion of the World's Fair .

After a study trip through the countries of Europe, he married Corinne Elisabeth Bujac in 1874 and settled in France, first in Écouen , where he opened a painting school a few years later, and then in Paris. In 1875 he began exhibiting his pictures at the Parisian art dealer Adolphe Goupil. He approached the circle of artists around Edgar Degas . In 1876 he began to deliver his works to the art dealer Thomas Agnew & Sons of London.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Chialiva has also shown his paintings in Italy, taking part in the Venice Biennials (1901, 1903, 1905, 1914), the Milan Triennale (1906) and the Turin Quadriennale (1908).

Among his students were François Guiguet and James William Pattison .

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SURNAME Chialiva, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss animal painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1914
Place of death Paris