Marco Davanzo

Marco Tiziano Davanzo (born July 25, 1872 in Ampezzo , † July 2, 1955 (ibid)) was an Italian painter .

Davanzo moved at a young age from his Friulian homeland to Venice , where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 1888 - 1892 and became a student of Ettore Tito and Antonio Dal Zotto . As a result, he was initially mainly influenced by the classical academic approach, but then, when he subsequently became a student at the Academy's Free Nude School, he got to know European modern painting, which was presented at the first international art biennale in Venice in 1895 . Davanzo was particularly impressed by Giovanni Segantini with his pointillist and symbolist technique, but Davanzo himself remained rather conventional. In 1893 Davanzo stayed in Rome to study the art collections there, in 1895 Davanzo returned to Ampezzo, but maintained contacts with his Venetian art friends (including Pietro Fragiacomo ).

The typical subject of Davanzo in the following years were mountain landscapes, both with winter snow motifs and in clear sunlight. He took part in the 1903 Biennale with his painting Winter Evening , which was later exhibited in Paris and Munich (today in the Udine Art Gallery ). The large-format painting Stille from 1908 (exhibited in Munich and Udine) is also known. His wife Anna Benedetti, whom he married in 1900 , also appears regularly in his natural landscapes, as does his daughter Elisa, born in 1901 . After he had repeatedly made trips to the Carnic Alps in order to capture them in his pictures, the First World War , which made this area a theater of war , forced him to move to the Marche. Even in the interwar period, Davanzo remained highly productive and true to his subject, and at the end of the 1930s and early 1940s he had his pictures exhibited again in several cities in northern Italy ( 1938 in Milan , 1941 in Trieste , 1943 in Udine). At the age of 82 he finally dies in his hometown in Friuli.

In Ampezzo there is also a permanent exhibition of his works in the Pinakothek there.