Telemaco Signorini
Telemaco Signorini (born August 18, 1835 in Florence , † February 10, 1901 there ) was an Italian painter of realism .
He belonged to a Florentine group of painters who called themselves Macchiaioli (stain painters ) and who opposed the academic painting of their time. The hallmarks were light / dark color zones, which is where their name comes from ( spots ).
Life
Signorini was the son of a painter to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Giovanni Signorini. From 1852 he occasionally attended the Florentine Academy (because of the nude class), but in 1854 he turned to painting landscapes in the open air with Borrani. From 1855 he attended the meetings of the Macchiaioli in the Café Michelangelo in Florence (including Giovanni Fattori , Silvestro Lega ). He took part in Giuseppe Garibaldi's Second War of Independence in 1859 and painted five battle paintings that drew him attention. In 1861 he was in Paris for the first time, where he met Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and was enthusiastic about the paintings of Gustave Courbet . In 1862 he founded the Pergentina school in a suburb of Florence . On later visits to Paris (1868, 1872) he made friends with Edgar Degas , who especially admired his picture of the mentally ill in San Bonifazio. He became a leading member of the Macchiaioli and literarily their mouthpiece (alongside Adriano Cecioni and the art critic Diego Martelli). Signorini exhibited regularly not only in Florence, but also in Turin, Naples, Vienna, Venice and other places.
In 1881 he traveled to Great Britain and Scotland to paint (also in 1883/84 and 1878). He also traveled a lot in Italy and Switzerland. In 1883 he received an offer to become a professor at the Florentine Academy, which he refused. But from 1892 he taught at the Instituto Superiore di Belle Arti in Florence.
He had literary inclinations and published literary criticism and also poems (Le 99 discussioni artistiche di EG Moltenì).
His most famous paintings include (in addition to the already mentioned hall of the mentally ill in San Bonifazio) a picture from the prison of Portoferraio , which also shows the well-known robber Carmine Crocco (Donatello, 1830–1905), as well as the picture Leith from his trip to Scotland in 1881.
He also made copper engravings, drawings and book illustrations for books by the art critic Diego Martelli (1839–1896), with whom he stayed in Castiglioncello after returning from his first trip to Paris . With this he founded the Gazzettino delle arti del disegno in 1867 .
gallery
Mad mentally ill in the San Bonifazio Hospital, 1865, Venice, Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Ca Pesaro
Hill near Settignano
La Via del Fuoco, 1881
Old Market (Mercato Vecchio) in Florence, 1882–83
Ghetto in Florence, 1882
Prison in Portoferraio, 1894, Florence, Galleria d'Arte Moderna in the Palazzo Pitti
Riomaggiore , around 1895
Rendezvous in the woods, 1873
Bakery in Settignano
L'Alzaia, 1864
Entertainment in Riomaggiore 1893
Via Calimala 1889
literature
- L. Vertova, Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
- E. Somaré Telemaco Signorini , Milan 1926, Bergamo 1931
- U. Ojetti Telemaco Signorini Milan 1911, Rome 1930
- Norma Broude The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century , Yale University Press 1987
- E. Steingräber, G. Matteucci The Macchiaioli: Tuscan Painters of the Sunlight , exhibition catalog, March / April 1984, New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallerie, in collaboration with Matthiesen, London.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Article Martelli in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- ↑ The date is given in Kindler's Malereilexikon, other information is from around 1890
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Signorini, Telemaco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1901 |
| Place of death | Florence |