Maria Vinca

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Self-portrait, 1903

Maria Vinca (born January 29, 1878 in Milan , † December 8, 1939 in Venice ) was an Italian painter who mainly worked in Venice.

life and work

Photo of Vincas in the Circle of Friends (front row, middle, with a bouquet of flowers in hand)

Maria Vinca was born as the first of three daughters of Teresa Tavazza and Giovanni Vinca. She attended the Accademia di Brera in her native Milan , where she studied with Filippo Carcano , who in turn was a student of Francesco Hayez .

Moved to Venice in the early 1890s, Vinca studied at the local Accademia di belle arti and the Scuola libera di Nudo , which Amedeo Modigliani also attended. In the Calle San Domenico near San Trovaso she opened a studio that was often visited by other artists. Among the visitors were Emma Ciardi, Fabio Mauroner, Guido Cadorin, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , Fioravante Seibezzi, members of the Gruppo di Burano and Enrico Giulio Trois, who taught at the Istituto d'Arte di Venezia , but also the sculptor Oreste Licudis.

The Campo San Barnaba in Venice

She created numerous landscape pictures and vedutas , but mainly stood out as a portraitist . During the First World War she wrote manifestos and postcards to support the bond campaigns. She maintained contacts with influential families such as the Brandolini d'Adda, the Vittorio Cinis family , the Papafava , Valmarana, Marzotto, the Morandi , Ottolenghi or Errera families , as well as the baritone Titta Ruffo . She was also friends with the family of the General Secretary of the Partito Socialista Unitario and members of the Partito Socialista Italiano, who were murdered by fascists in 1924 . She also portrayed him and his wife Velia Ruffo together with their three children, Gian Carlo, Gian Matteo and Isabella, born in 1918, 1921 and 1922. These portraits are now in the museum of Fratta Polesine , in the Casa Matteotti.

At the Venice Biennale , Vinca exhibited at the Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa in 1909, 1922, and 1926, as well as on a number of occasions at Ca 'Pesaro . Critics emphasized the “restlessness”, the “eminent quality” of her painting, but also her “masculinity”. After the death of her father, she supported her mother and her two younger sisters. In her last years she ran a private painting school, then she opened a second studio on the Lido , where she now mostly lived. Her works from this period have been acquired by various collectors in America. A number of her works are now in the possession of her niece, the musician Ida Coppola .

Younger receptionist

From July 14th to September 13th 1998 there was an exhibition in Cortina d'Ampezzo at the Museo d'Arte Moderna Mario Rimoldi , which was followed by an exhibition in Bassano del Grappa in the Palazzo Agostinelli from October 2nd to November 13th, as well as a further exhibition in Padua . In 2011 works by Maria Vinca were exhibited in the Villa Pisani, in 2014 in Mirano (together with those by Giola Gandini , Ernesta Oltremonti and Gabriella Oreffice), in 2015 in Venice ( Gli artisti di Ca 'Pesaro: le mostre del 1919 e del 1920 ).

  • Portrait of sister Adele

  • Portrait of Bianca Cadorin as a child

  • mimosa

  • Portrait of the niece Teresa (Resi)

  • Portrait of the niece Didi

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria Vinca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sergio Rebora: Le protagoniste. School e tendenze nella pittura milanese a cavallo dei due secoli. In: A. Scotti, MT Fiorio, S. Rebora (eds.): Dal salotto agli ateliers: produione artistica femminile a Milano (1880-1920). Exhibition catalog. Jandi Sapi, Rome / Milan 1999, pp. 27–61, here: p. 35
  2. ↑ Fratta Polesine. A "Casa Matteotti" si fa esperienza ... di storia. Film contribution, March 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Rivista mensile della città di Venezia , 5 (1926) 4.
  4. ↑ Atelier ritrovati: Emma Ciardi, Maria Vinca, Gemma Verzegnassi, Lina Rosso, Rachele Tognana, Alis Levi, Gabriella Oreffice, Bice Lazzari, Fiore Zaccarian, Miranda Visonà. Exhibition catalog, Eidos, Mirano 1998.
  5. ↑ Isabella Reale, Myriam Zerbi (ed.): Paesaggi d'Acqua. Luci e riflessi nella pittura veneziana dell'Ottocento. Allemandi, Turin, p. 146 f.
personal data
SURNAME Vinca, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1939
Place of death Venice