Renato Birolli
Renato Birolli (born December 10, 1905 in Verona , † May 3, 1959 in Milan ) was an Italian painter.
Life
Birolli was born into a family of industrial workers. In 1923 Birolli moved to Milan and founded an artist group there together with other avant-garde painters such as Renato Guttuso , Giacomo Manzù and Aligi Sassu .
Renato Birolli begins his painting with expressionist forms of expression, which are influenced by the art of Vincent van Gogh and James Ensor . In 1936 he visited Paris and began to be interested in the Fauves . In 1937 Birolli was a co-founder of the Corrente artist movement . He wrote articles in various magazines. His activities resulted in temporary imprisonment in fascist Italy. Birolli begins to sympathize with communism and later to support the Italian resistance .
Birolli moved to Paris in 1947, where he was inspired by the art of Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and began to transform his artistic expression into a kind of post- cubism . Later he will find his own style in a lyrical form of abstract painting . In 1947 Birolli joined the artist movement Fronte Nuovo delle Arti .
After the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti split up , he founded the Gruppo degli Otto group in 1952 together with the artists Afro Basaldella , Ennio Morlotti , Antonio Corpora , Emilio Vedova , Giuseppe Santomaso , Giulio Turcato and Mattia Moreni .
After 1948 his works were shown several times at the Venice Biennale .
He was a participant in documenta 1 (1955) and (posthumously) documenta II in 1959 in Kassel .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Birolli, Renato |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1959 |
| Place of death | Milan |